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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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JUN 10, 2022
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data on July 12, 2022
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUN 09, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Hydrides in the Galaxy (HyGAL) is a project whose goal is to characterize the interstellar medium in the Milky Way in or
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUN 06, 2022
Microbiology
In 1999, a miniature rotor that could be moved reliably was attached to a molecule. Researchers have come a long way sin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 05, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Let’s face it, mountains are awesome. They’re awesome to look at and even more awesome to climb. There are f
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 05, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to determine how life first arose on our planet, and finding an answer to that question coul
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 03, 2022
Space & Astronomy
One of the major reasons why Mars is such a popular object to study in our Solar System is because scientists believe th
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUN 02, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Aurorae are a familiar phenomenon on our home planet, Earth. Better known as the “northern lights” – a
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
MAY 31, 2022
Microbiology
Even this juvenile nudibranch from Quadra Island, British Columbia, has a microbiome. / Image credit: Niels Van Steenkis
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 29, 2022
Space & Astronomy
The universe is a very big place full of awesome wonders that no human will ever see in its entirety, and that’s w
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 27, 2022
Space & Astronomy
A new study in Astronomy & Astrophysics published the largest catalog of ultracool dwarfs to date. The team at the N
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
MAY 25, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
The words “molecular biology” might sound intimidating to most, but it’s not quite as bad as you think
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 23, 2022
Health & Medicine
Since the onset of the pandemic, researchers and clinicians have been trying to determine why COVID-19 is more severe in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 21, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Geneticists have sought to understand the impact of genetic mutations, and what drives and maintains changes in DNA.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 20, 2022
Health & Medicine
In previous studies in Israel, vaccine-induced COVID immunity was reported to decrease as early as three
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
MAY 11, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Finding another Earth sitting among the vast cosmos has reached a fever pitch, as NASA recently confirmed the existence
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 09, 2022
Health & Medicine
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests multiple areas in the brain's frontal
...
Written By:
Alexandria Bass
MAY 01, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Two new studies have revealed more about a bacterial pathogen that can infect the gut, clostridium difficile. There are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 22, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Prokaryotic cells, which include all bacteria and archaea, are ancient, and relatively simple compared to eukaryotic cel
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 20, 2022
Microbiology
Despite the dire, well-documented risks of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which threatens to kill 10 million people a y
...
Sponsored By:
Thermo Fisher Scientific
APR 18, 2022
Microbiology
We've learned a lot about life that came before us by studying fossils. The ancestry and evolution of ancient microbial
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 04, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
About 1.5 million new HIV infections are thought to have occurred last year, and while COVID-19 has dominated concerns a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 03, 2022
Space & Astronomy
Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun – The Ringed Planet, as curious, young sky watchers might often ask, “
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 02, 2022
Microbiology
Typical viruses that we're familiar with need another organism to survive, and tend to have extremely small genomes. But
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 01, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our cells are full of little machines that perform certain critical functions, like ribosomes, which help generate prote
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch