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Animals: are multicellular organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.
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FEB 16, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers may have just made it easier for investigators to switch to an engineered model and replace their animal col ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 16, 2020Plants & Animals
Blue whales are the largest living mammals on Earth, capable of growing as long as three full-length school busses. As y ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 16, 2020Plants & Animals
Most people are accustomed to thinking that if you avoid a jellyfish’s tentacles while swimming in the ocean, then ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 13, 2020Earth & The Environment
Scientific studies are revealing just how humans have impacted the environment over the past few centuries. Recently, sc ...Written By: Tiffany DazetFEB 12, 2020Earth & The Environment
Have you noticed trees and other vegetation in your city turning green earlier than usual? A new study from Iowa State U ...Written By: Tiffany DazetFEB 12, 2020Health & Medicine
Neuroscientists may face the challenge of not having enough material or high-quality material to study the condition the ...Written By: Tiffany DazetFEB 11, 2020Plants & Animals
Cheetahs are the world’s fastest land animal; their powerful hind legs give them incredible launching power and th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 10, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
An antiviral drug successfully prevented Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in infected rhesus maca ...Written By: Nouran AminFEB 10, 2020Plants & Animals
Most fish spend almost all of their lives in a body of water, be it the ocean or some smaller lake or stream. Mudskipper ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 10, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 4,000 years ago in a remote area off the Siberian coast, called Wrang ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 09, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Mosquitoes can be dangerous disease vectors, and they infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people with illnesses lik ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 09, 2020Plants & Animals
There are at least 17 known species of horned lizard belonging to the genus Phrynosoma, but the giant horned lizard (Phr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 09, 2020Plants & Animals
While perusing the confines of the Mgahinga National Park in Uganda earlier this month, a team of conservationists were ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 08, 2020Microbiology
In China, authorities are still struggling to contain the new coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan and has sinc ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 07, 2020Technology
Researchers at the University of California San Diego now have a better understanding of the social behavior of insets t ...Written By: Nouran AminFEB 07, 2020Health & Medicine
Under federal law, cannabis is illegal and considered a class 1 drug, meaning that it is perceived to have no medical va ...FEB 07, 2020Neuroscience
New research has found that flavonols, a large class of compounds present in many fruits and vegetables, may be linked t ...Written By: Annie LennonFEB 04, 2020Plants & Animals
When large schools of sardines materialize in the oceans, it can be a spectacular sight. In some cases, however, the sig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 03, 2020Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect from one-quarter to one-third of the global population.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 03, 2020Plants & Animals
Polar bears realize that food can be scarce at times, and that’s a problem considering just how much they like to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 02, 2020Earth & The Environment
Research published recently in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that our collective misuse of tropical ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 02, 2020Cancer
A new approach to studying the effects of two common chemicals used in cosmetics and sunscreens found they can cause DNA ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 02, 2020Plants & Animals
Most fish probably cringe at the idea of beaching themselves on purpose, especially since they can’t breathe out o ...Written By: Anthony BouchardFEB 02, 2020Plants & Animals
A class of two-legged carnivorous dinosaur dubbed noasaurids are said to have existed in later half of the Cretaceous Er ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
FEB 16, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers may have just made it easier for investigators to switch to an engineered model and replace their animal col
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 16, 2020
Plants & Animals
Blue whales are the largest living mammals on Earth, capable of growing as long as three full-length school busses. As y
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 16, 2020
Plants & Animals
Most people are accustomed to thinking that if you avoid a jellyfish’s tentacles while swimming in the ocean, then
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 13, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Scientific studies are revealing just how humans have impacted the environment over the past few centuries. Recently, sc
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
FEB 12, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Have you noticed trees and other vegetation in your city turning green earlier than usual? A new study from Iowa State U
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
FEB 12, 2020
Health & Medicine
Neuroscientists may face the challenge of not having enough material or high-quality material to study the condition the
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
FEB 11, 2020
Plants & Animals
Cheetahs are the world’s fastest land animal; their powerful hind legs give them incredible launching power and th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 10, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
An antiviral drug successfully prevented Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in infected rhesus maca
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
FEB 10, 2020
Plants & Animals
Most fish spend almost all of their lives in a body of water, be it the ocean or some smaller lake or stream. Mudskipper
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 10, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Wooly mammoths are thought to have died out around 4,000 years ago in a remote area off the Siberian coast, called Wrang
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 09, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Mosquitoes can be dangerous disease vectors, and they infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people with illnesses lik
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 09, 2020
Plants & Animals
There are at least 17 known species of horned lizard belonging to the genus Phrynosoma, but the giant horned lizard (Phr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 09, 2020
Plants & Animals
While perusing the confines of the Mgahinga National Park in Uganda earlier this month, a team of conservationists were
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 08, 2020
Microbiology
In China, authorities are still struggling to contain the new coronavirus that emerged in the city of Wuhan and has sinc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 07, 2020
Technology
Researchers at the University of California San Diego now have a better understanding of the social behavior of insets t
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
FEB 07, 2020
Health & Medicine
Under federal law, cannabis is illegal and considered a class 1 drug, meaning that it is perceived to have no medical va
...
FEB 07, 2020
Neuroscience
New research has found that flavonols, a large class of compounds present in many fruits and vegetables, may be linked t
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
FEB 04, 2020
Plants & Animals
When large schools of sardines materialize in the oceans, it can be a spectacular sight. In some cases, however, the sig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 03, 2020
Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect from one-quarter to one-third of the global population.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 03, 2020
Plants & Animals
Polar bears realize that food can be scarce at times, and that’s a problem considering just how much they like to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 02, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Research published recently in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that our collective misuse of tropical
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 02, 2020
Cancer
A new approach to studying the effects of two common chemicals used in cosmetics and sunscreens found they can cause DNA
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 02, 2020
Plants & Animals
Most fish probably cringe at the idea of beaching themselves on purpose, especially since they can’t breathe out o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 02, 2020
Plants & Animals
A class of two-legged carnivorous dinosaur dubbed noasaurids are said to have existed in later half of the Cretaceous Er
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard