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Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of species and ecosystems through geographic space and time. It focuses on the large-scale distribution of species, investigating how the distributions change over time and the factors they are governed by.
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SEP 22, 2025Genetics & Genomics
US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about ongoing genetic adaptations in peopl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 29, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Modern humans are thought to have walked out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, and they kept going until they reached e ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 17, 2025Earth & The Environment
Scientists have discovered intact evidence of an ancient agricultural site in northern Michigan, and it is likely one of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 13, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have learned a lot about how people settled the Americas by using genetic data. Columbia is part of the land ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 10, 2025Earth & The Environment
In 1987, there were about 5 billion people in the world. Now, there are more than 8 billion of us, and we are developing ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 31, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
In late November 2024, the World Health Organization was alerted to a serious public health crisis in a region of the Co ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 20, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
The World Health Organization is investigating a mysterious illness now known as Disease X, which has sickened hundreds ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 17, 2024Microbiology
People have been brewing beer for thousands of years. Its a process that can be done on an industrial scale or at home, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 17, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists are trying to learn more about the exact factors that promote the spread of disease, in part because that wil ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 01, 2024Earth & The Environment
There are over 3,000 species of cicadas, some of which are annual, and others that spend most of their life underground, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 03, 2024Earth & The Environment
Frogs and toads around the world have been devastated by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungus that causes the d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 20, 2024Earth & The Environment
A new study reported in Nature Communications has highlighted the dramatic influxes that humans can have on ecology. Thi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 15, 2024Earth & The Environment
New research has shown that giant sequoia trees that were imported and planted in the United Kingdom, some of which have ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 21, 2023Microbiology
Researchers have discovered that brown rats living near Atlanta, Georgia are carrying a parasite called rat lungworm, or ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 19, 2022Genetics & Genomics
About 10,000 years ago in an area of the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent, humans began to settle as farmers in ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 19, 2022Health & Medicine
In the modern world, many people are exposed to artificial light at night. It's even become such a problem that dark sky ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 17, 2022Microbiology
Various types of fungi in soils are causing serious lung infections in 48 of 50 US states, and the District of Columbia, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 10, 2022Genetics & Genomics
There's lots of stuff we can't see in the air, and it seems that includes DNA. Two new studies in Current Biology have r ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 31, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The Silk Road has long been known as a trade route that connected different cultures, and one area now known as the Xinj ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 29, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Homo bodoensis is a direct ancestor of modern humans who lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, and seen in this ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 10, 2021Plants & Animals
It's not unusual for people in workplaces and at home to have different temperature preferences. There may be biological ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 02, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 27, 2021Genetics & Genomics
While this research has provided some answers, it also raised many new questions. An image by Atish Waghwase/Harney et a ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about ongoing genetic adaptations in peopl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 29, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Modern humans are thought to have walked out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, and they kept going until they reached e
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have discovered intact evidence of an ancient agricultural site in northern Michigan, and it is likely one of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 13, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have learned a lot about how people settled the Americas by using genetic data. Columbia is part of the land
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 10, 2025
Earth & The Environment
In 1987, there were about 5 billion people in the world. Now, there are more than 8 billion of us, and we are developing
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 31, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
In late November 2024, the World Health Organization was alerted to a serious public health crisis in a region of the Co
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 20, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Some species of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei can a serious and deadly illness caused sleeping sickness. These parasit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
The World Health Organization is investigating a mysterious illness now known as Disease X, which has sickened hundreds
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 17, 2024
Microbiology
People have been brewing beer for thousands of years. Its a process that can be done on an industrial scale or at home,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 17, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists are trying to learn more about the exact factors that promote the spread of disease, in part because that wil
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 01, 2024
Earth & The Environment
There are over 3,000 species of cicadas, some of which are annual, and others that spend most of their life underground,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 03, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Frogs and toads around the world have been devastated by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungus that causes the d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 20, 2024
Earth & The Environment
A new study reported in Nature Communications has highlighted the dramatic influxes that humans can have on ecology. Thi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 15, 2024
Earth & The Environment
New research has shown that giant sequoia trees that were imported and planted in the United Kingdom, some of which have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2023
Microbiology
Researchers have discovered that brown rats living near Atlanta, Georgia are carrying a parasite called rat lungworm, or
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
About 10,000 years ago in an area of the Middle East known as the Fertile Crescent, humans began to settle as farmers in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2022
Health & Medicine
In the modern world, many people are exposed to artificial light at night. It's even become such a problem that dark sky
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 17, 2022
Microbiology
Various types of fungi in soils are causing serious lung infections in 48 of 50 US states, and the District of Columbia,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 10, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
There's lots of stuff we can't see in the air, and it seems that includes DNA. Two new studies in Current Biology have r
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 31, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The Silk Road has long been known as a trade route that connected different cultures, and one area now known as the Xinj
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 29, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Homo bodoensis is a direct ancestor of modern humans who lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, and seen in this
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 10, 2021
Plants & Animals
It's not unusual for people in workplaces and at home to have different temperature preferences. There may be biological
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 02, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Reporting in Nature Communications, scientists have suggested that every living snake on earth evolved from just a handf
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 27, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
While this research has provided some answers, it also raised many new questions. An image by Atish Waghwase/Harney et a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch