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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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MAR 25, 2015Neuroscience
A mother's exposure to common air pollution-the type emitted from car exhaust, coal burning, and even charred foods-has ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 25, 2015Cardiology
Working with lab animals and human heart cells, scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions have identified wha ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 25, 2015Cancer
Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of research into the genetic muta ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 25, 2015Plants & Animals
You could call it one of the world's longest games of hide and seek.
For more than 20 years, the Ili pika (Oc ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 25, 2015Earth & The Environment
Pitcairn Island is well known for being the landing place of the HMS Bounty in 1790. The crew, who had successfully carr ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 24, 2015Plants & Animals
A new species of frog discovered in Ecuador is the first vertebrate known to change its skin texture from smooth to spin ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 24, 2015Microbiology
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum produces chemical compounds called terpenes that give off odors that attract ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 24, 2015Plants & Animals
Researchers have found fossil remains of a previously unknown species of crocodile-like "super salamander" that roamed t ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAR 24, 2015Plants & Animals
Aside from giving us the phrase "to play possum," it could be argued opossums haven't really contributed all that much t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Microbiology
to exclude other, more plausible alternatives, and I just do not think they have done that."Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Technology
Some 2.5 million years ago, early humans survived on a paltry diet of plants. As the human brain expanded, however, it r ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
One of the first research Institutes to be part of the MinION Access Programme (MAP), The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 23, 2015Plants & Animals
In San Diego, residents have been dealing with aggressive coyotes and the struggle could go up a notch and turn violent. ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 23, 2015Plants & Animals
About 2,300 years ago, the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle noticed what he called a "cold fire" emanating from ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 22, 2015Plants & Animals
The animal was a local legend among the people living in a protected area of southeastern Brazil's Atlantic rain forest. ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 20, 2015Earth & The Environment
Some mushrooms glow, which may come as news to you, but not so to Aristotle, who lived some 2,400 years ago.
...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 20, 2015Immunology
Culling vampire bat colonies to fight rabies in Latin America does little to slow the spread of the virus-and could even ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 20, 2015Immunology
In recent years, a deficiency of vitamin D has been linked to type 2 diabetes and heart disease, two illnesses tha ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 20, 2015Earth & The Environment
A mysterious coral species that was overshadowed by another, more well-known type may finally be getting its due.
< ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 20, 2015Plants & Animals
Until recently, many people outside of Australia had never heard of the quokka, a Muppet-cute (despite its beady eyes an ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 19, 2015Cancer
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that when a certain aggressive leukemia is cau ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 19, 2015Plants & Animals
Hitching a ride on shipping containers is likely how these spiders from the Far East arrived in the United States. Known ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 18, 2015Earth & The Environment
Lake Kivu, on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is being transformed from a ticking ti ...Written By: Andrew J. Dunlop
MAR 25, 2015
Neuroscience
A mother's exposure to common air pollution-the type emitted from car exhaust, coal burning, and even charred foods-has
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 25, 2015
Cardiology
Working with lab animals and human heart cells, scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions have identified wha
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 25, 2015
Cancer
Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of research into the genetic muta
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 25, 2015
Plants & Animals
You could call it one of the world's longest games of hide and seek.
For more than 20 years, the Ili pika (Oc ...
For more than 20 years, the Ili pika (Oc ...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 25, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Pitcairn Island is well known for being the landing place of the HMS Bounty in 1790. The crew, who had successfully carr
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 24, 2015
Plants & Animals
A new species of frog discovered in Ecuador is the first vertebrate known to change its skin texture from smooth to spin
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 24, 2015
Microbiology
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum produces chemical compounds called terpenes that give off odors that attract
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 24, 2015
Plants & Animals
Researchers have found fossil remains of a previously unknown species of crocodile-like "super salamander" that roamed t
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
MAR 24, 2015
Plants & Animals
Aside from giving us the phrase "to play possum," it could be argued opossums haven't really contributed all that much t
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 23, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 23, 2015
Microbiology
to exclude other, more plausible alternatives, and I just do not think they have done that."
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 23, 2015
Technology
Some 2.5 million years ago, early humans survived on a paltry diet of plants. As the human brain expanded, however, it r
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 23, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
One of the first research Institutes to be part of the MinION Access Programme (MAP), The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC),
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 23, 2015
Plants & Animals
In San Diego, residents have been dealing with aggressive coyotes and the struggle could go up a notch and turn violent.
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 23, 2015
Plants & Animals
About 2,300 years ago, the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle noticed what he called a "cold fire" emanating from
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 22, 2015
Plants & Animals
The animal was a local legend among the people living in a protected area of southeastern Brazil's Atlantic rain forest.
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 20, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Some mushrooms glow, which may come as news to you, but not so to Aristotle, who lived some 2,400 years ago.
...
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 20, 2015
Immunology
Culling vampire bat colonies to fight rabies in Latin America does little to slow the spread of the virus-and could even
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 20, 2015
Immunology
In recent years, a deficiency of vitamin D has been linked to type 2 diabetes and heart disease, two illnesses tha ...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 20, 2015
Earth & The Environment
A mysterious coral species that was overshadowed by another, more well-known type may finally be getting its due.
< ...
< ...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 20, 2015
Plants & Animals
Until recently, many people outside of Australia had never heard of the quokka, a Muppet-cute (despite its beady eyes an
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 19, 2015
Cancer
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that when a certain aggressive leukemia is cau
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 19, 2015
Plants & Animals
Hitching a ride on shipping containers is likely how these spiders from the Far East arrived in the United States. Known
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 18, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Lake Kivu, on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is being transformed from a ticking ti
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop