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Evolution
Evolution: the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules. Repeated formation of new species, change within species, and loss of species throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth are demonstrated by shared sets of morphological and biochemical traits, including shared DNA sequences. These shared traits are more similar among species that share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct a biological "tree of life" based on evolutionary relationships, using both existing species and fossils.
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JUL 28, 2022Space & Astronomy
GHOST – the Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph – recently achieved its first light. This new telesc ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.JUL 24, 2022Space & Astronomy
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56 million years ago, the Earth was a much different place as a cataclysmic event caused global temperatures to rise and ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 01, 2022Genetics & Genomics
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A Nova aka a New Star is a sudden outburst on the surface of a white dwarf (remnant of a dead star) when it pulls enough ...Written By: Amanpreet KaurJUN 28, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Recent research has suggested that all eukaryotic life is descended from an Asgard archaeaWritten By: Carmen LeitchJUN 25, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Cephalopods, including octopuses, have exceptionally large and complex nervous systems; the octopod brain is thought to ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 25, 2022Space & Astronomy
During a press conference at this summer’s American Astronomical Society meeting, a team of researchers presented ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.JUN 24, 2022Plants & Animals
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Gaia is a survey mission launched in 2013 on a Soyuz-STB/Fregat-MT launch vehicle from the European Spaceport in Kourou, ...Written By: Amanpreet KaurJUN 22, 2022Microbiology
Our bodies contain huge numbers of microbes - inside and out. We even have face mites. New research has shown that the m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 19, 2022Space & Astronomy
While we’re all fascinated by supernovas and how awesome they look, our own Sun will not go supernova at the end o ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 19, 2022Genetics & Genomics
When parents mate and produce offspring, their genomes recombine, shuffling the genetic information within. But supergen ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 17, 2022Space & Astronomy
One crucial reason astronomers study the Sun is to gain knowledge of stars other than the Sun. This is relevant to under ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUL 28, 2022
Space & Astronomy
GHOST – the Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph – recently achieved its first light. This new telesc
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUL 24, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Volcanoes are one of nature’s most awe-inspiring creations, giant mountains ejecting red hot lava that are both be
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 23, 2022
Space & Astronomy
In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers have observed a massive young star near the cente
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUL 22, 2022
Earth & The Environment
A recent and comprehensive study out of Flinders University in Australia that was published in BMC Ecology and Evolution
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 22, 2022
Space & Astronomy
On June, 23, 2022, the BepiColombo mission made its second gravity assist of the planet Mercury. BepiColombo is a collab
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUL 18, 2022
Plants & Animals
As one of the earliest domesticated animals, dogs evolved from wolves into what we now know as extremely diverse domesti
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
JUL 16, 2022
Microbiology
Breastfeeding is encouraged because it provides many benefits to both mothers and infants. Breastmilk is nutritious, and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 14, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Scientists have discovered evidence of fire dating back at least 800,000 years. Fire has been essential to human evoluti
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
JUL 12, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Sperm and egg cells, or gametes, are unusual. Egg cells are some of the largest cell types, and sperm are some of the sm
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 12, 2022
Space & Astronomy
The wait is finally over! NASA has released the very first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Pre
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUL 11, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Carnivorous plants are amazing, and researchers have spent a long time learning about their impressive abilities. Now sc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2022
Earth & The Environment
56 million years ago, the Earth was a much different place as a cataclysmic event caused global temperatures to rise and
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 01, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Since the dawn of human history, we have always wondered how we got here. What processes took place that brought us from
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 30, 2022
Plants & Animals
Scientists have long wondered what Earth was like in its most nascent stage. More importantly, researchers have tried to
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
JUN 30, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
A Nova aka a New Star is a sudden outburst on the surface of a white dwarf (remnant of a dead star) when it pulls enough
...
Written By:
Amanpreet Kaur
JUN 28, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Recent research has suggested that all eukaryotic life is descended from an Asgard archaea
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 25, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Cephalopods, including octopuses, have exceptionally large and complex nervous systems; the octopod brain is thought to
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 25, 2022
Space & Astronomy
During a press conference at this summer’s American Astronomical Society meeting, a team of researchers presented
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUN 24, 2022
Plants & Animals
We’ve all what animals see. Do they see the same way humans do in terms of colors, or is the vision of each animal
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 23, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Gaia is a survey mission launched in 2013 on a Soyuz-STB/Fregat-MT launch vehicle from the European Spaceport in Kourou,
...
Written By:
Amanpreet Kaur
JUN 22, 2022
Microbiology
Our bodies contain huge numbers of microbes - inside and out. We even have face mites. New research has shown that the m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 19, 2022
Space & Astronomy
While we’re all fascinated by supernovas and how awesome they look, our own Sun will not go supernova at the end o
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 19, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
When parents mate and produce offspring, their genomes recombine, shuffling the genetic information within. But supergen
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2022
Space & Astronomy
One crucial reason astronomers study the Sun is to gain knowledge of stars other than the Sun. This is relevant to under
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.