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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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DEC 27, 2018Plants & Animals
If you pay close attention to your dog’s barking and body language, you’ll begin to recognize specific patte ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 27, 2018Plants & Animals
In a sad turn of events this week, a baby female Asian elephant calf from Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium passed ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 26, 2018Drug Discovery & Development
According to a multi-disciplinary study carried out by the University of Illinois, a compound was found to effectively s ...Written By: Nouran AminDEC 26, 2018Plants & Animals
Olfaction, or more colloquially known as the sense of smell, is essential for coho salmon. The fish depend on their nose ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 24, 2018Videos
Are animals capable of deception? Of course! Humans, classified as animals in science, are very much deceiving creatures ...Written By: Nouran AminDEC 24, 2018Cell & Molecular Biology
There's nothing particularly striking about planarians on first glance, but they can regrow their whole body from a bit ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 24, 2018Plants & Animals
There exist a bevy of ways that an animal species can be driven to evolve, but one of the more controversial methods of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 24, 2018Plants & Animals
Willow tits and other similarly small birds may have a lot to gain from finding and joining a flock early in life. A pap ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 23, 2018Videos
Science magazine has chosen the projects they view as the biggest breakthroughs from 2018.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 23, 2018Microbiology
The bacteria of the gut microbiome have a powerful influence on human health, and new research has elucidated one mechan ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 21, 2018Genetics & Genomics
Red wolves were thought to be extinct in the wild and were listed as such in 1980. Researchers have now found red wolf D ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 21, 2018Videos
The Marburg virus was identified in 1967 after lab workers, and then some of their family members became ill.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 20, 2018Videos
It may be possible to swab a dog's cheek and do a genetic test to see if it would make a good service dog.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 20, 2018Plants & Animals
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Houses and storefronts are all decorated with Christmas trees, sparkling li ...Written By: Liat Ben-SeniorDEC 20, 2018Genetics & Genomics
Genetic research has moved beyond the single mutation that causes a disease. Scientists want to know more about traits t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 19, 2018Videos
The most bitter compound known is denatonium-- it was discovered in 1958 by Macfarlan Smith of Edinburgh, Scotland durin ...Written By: Nouran AminDEC 19, 2018Plants & Animals
Depending on where you’re from, you may speak the same language as someone else, but with a slight accent or diale ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 19, 2018Drug Discovery & Development
ALS, standing for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegenerat ...Written By: Nouran AminDEC 18, 2018Plants & Animals
Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources drops thousands of fish into mountain lakes from airplanes every single year ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 18, 2018Plants & Animals
It’s no secret that dolphins are some of the ocean’s most intelligent creatures, and perhaps unsurprisingly, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 18, 2018Genetics & Genomics
Some people have a green thumb, but that doesn't mean that plants enjoy feeling it.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 17, 2018Health & Medicine
EMBL researchers have now found a way to stop itch with light in mice. Nature Biomedical Engineering publishes their res ...Written By: Aswini KannegantiDEC 17, 2018Health & Medicine
One subtype of K2P channel expressed in sensory neurons, TRESK has been reported to play a role in MA in its truncated f ...Written By: Aswini KannegantiDEC 17, 2018Plants & Animals
A new aquatic salamander species has been discovered, and researchers are almost entirely sure it matches the descriptio ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
DEC 27, 2018
Plants & Animals
If you pay close attention to your dog’s barking and body language, you’ll begin to recognize specific patte
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 27, 2018
Plants & Animals
In a sad turn of events this week, a baby female Asian elephant calf from Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium passed
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 26, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
According to a multi-disciplinary study carried out by the University of Illinois, a compound was found to effectively s
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
DEC 26, 2018
Plants & Animals
Olfaction, or more colloquially known as the sense of smell, is essential for coho salmon. The fish depend on their nose
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 24, 2018
Videos
Are animals capable of deception? Of course! Humans, classified as animals in science, are very much deceiving creatures
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
DEC 24, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
There's nothing particularly striking about planarians on first glance, but they can regrow their whole body from a bit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 24, 2018
Plants & Animals
There exist a bevy of ways that an animal species can be driven to evolve, but one of the more controversial methods of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 24, 2018
Plants & Animals
Willow tits and other similarly small birds may have a lot to gain from finding and joining a flock early in life. A pap
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 23, 2018
Videos
Science magazine has chosen the projects they view as the biggest breakthroughs from 2018.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 23, 2018
Microbiology
The bacteria of the gut microbiome have a powerful influence on human health, and new research has elucidated one mechan
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
Red wolves were thought to be extinct in the wild and were listed as such in 1980. Researchers have now found red wolf D
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2018
Videos
The Marburg virus was identified in 1967 after lab workers, and then some of their family members became ill.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 20, 2018
Videos
It may be possible to swab a dog's cheek and do a genetic test to see if it would make a good service dog.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 20, 2018
Plants & Animals
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Houses and storefronts are all decorated with Christmas trees, sparkling li
...
Written By:
Liat Ben-Senior
DEC 20, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
Genetic research has moved beyond the single mutation that causes a disease. Scientists want to know more about traits t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2018
Videos
The most bitter compound known is denatonium-- it was discovered in 1958 by Macfarlan Smith of Edinburgh, Scotland durin
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
DEC 19, 2018
Plants & Animals
Depending on where you’re from, you may speak the same language as someone else, but with a slight accent or diale
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 19, 2018
Drug Discovery & Development
ALS, standing for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegenerat
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
DEC 18, 2018
Plants & Animals
Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources drops thousands of fish into mountain lakes from airplanes every single year
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 18, 2018
Plants & Animals
It’s no secret that dolphins are some of the ocean’s most intelligent creatures, and perhaps unsurprisingly,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 18, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
Some people have a green thumb, but that doesn't mean that plants enjoy feeling it.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2018
Health & Medicine
EMBL researchers have now found a way to stop itch with light in mice. Nature Biomedical Engineering publishes their res
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 17, 2018
Health & Medicine
One subtype of K2P channel expressed in sensory neurons, TRESK has been reported to play a role in MA in its truncated f
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 17, 2018
Plants & Animals
A new aquatic salamander species has been discovered, and researchers are almost entirely sure it matches the descriptio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard