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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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A previous paper published in 2015 theorized that giant elliptical galaxies would be 10,000 times more likely than spira ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 01, 2020Earth & The Environment
A study from the University of California Riverside suggests that native bee species may thrive from the environmental e ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 29, 2020Microbiology
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A new theory of heredity is proposed, which takes into account more than just genes in a genome.Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 19, 2020Earth & The Environment
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An ancient fish fossil has given researchers new insight into how fish fins eventually evolved into human hands.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 22, 2020Plants & Animals
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Outliers exist everywhere in nature, and it seems they serve an important purpose.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 17, 2020Plants & Animals
Most people assume that pill bugs, which are more colloquially referred to as ‘roly polies,’ are insects. Bu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 17, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
It has been suggested that life arose from molecules that gradually came together in the right ways to form simple cells ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 16, 2020Genetics & Genomics
The genetic material from a sperm and an egg merges to form a new human genome, and now we know more details about the p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 16, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Creating recombinant proteins has become much easier over the past few decades. However, those with the skills to do des ...Written By: Jasper CantrellMAR 13, 2020Earth & The Environment
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In a recently published study, a group of Czech Republic researchers from the puts together two materials that are unlik ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 06, 2020Chemistry & Physics
Last Friday, February 28, 2020, the world said goodbye to Freeman Dyson, was a British American physicist and mathematic ...Written By: Daniel Duan
MAY 01, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
A previous paper published in 2015 theorized that giant elliptical galaxies would be 10,000 times more likely than spira
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 01, 2020
Earth & The Environment
A study from the University of California Riverside suggests that native bee species may thrive from the environmental e
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 29, 2020
Microbiology
Antibiotics are critical drugs that have saved millions of lives, but bacteria can also gain resistance to them, renderi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 28, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
In a five year study, scientists have now shown that stickleback fish were able to alter some of their traits within a s
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 27, 2020
Earth & The Environment
New research published in Environmental Research Letters reports that air pollution in Africa has increased significantl
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 23, 2020
Neuroscience
New research has shown that gaining a new insight, also known as an ‘aha’ moment, induces signaling patterns
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 23, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
A new theory of heredity is proposed, which takes into account more than just genes in a genome.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 19, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Who are we kidding? All these far-fetched climate change solutions aren’t actually helping anybody – if anyt
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 16, 2020
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the world. With a poor five year prognosis and lack of effective tr
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
APR 14, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Deer antlers grow faster than cancerous tumors.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 11, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
Gingivitis is a mild periodontal disease that causes inflammation, irritation, redness, and swelling of the gingiva. Thi
...
Written By:
Abbie Arce
APR 09, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
As humans evolved, they began to walk upright, which has helped propel our species forward, literally and figuratively.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 31, 2020
Neuroscience
Stress doesn’t only exacerbate our physiology- from our cardiovascular system to our immune system and digestive s
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 29, 2020
Plants & Animals
When snakes feel threatened, they may lash out at the aggressor with a painful bite out of self-defense. In some cases,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 22, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
An ancient fish fossil has given researchers new insight into how fish fins eventually evolved into human hands.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2020
Plants & Animals
As a general rule of thumb, most of the world’s wild animals keep their instinctual mating practices within their
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 22, 2020
Microbiology
Outliers exist everywhere in nature, and it seems they serve an important purpose.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 17, 2020
Plants & Animals
Most people assume that pill bugs, which are more colloquially referred to as ‘roly polies,’ are insects. Bu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
It has been suggested that life arose from molecules that gradually came together in the right ways to form simple cells
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The genetic material from a sperm and an egg merges to form a new human genome, and now we know more details about the p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 16, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Creating recombinant proteins has become much easier over the past few decades. However, those with the skills to do des
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
MAR 13, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Imagine if we could forecast ecological changes just as we can forecast the weather. That’s just what new research
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 10, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
In a recently published study, a group of Czech Republic researchers from the puts together two materials that are unlik
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 06, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Last Friday, February 28, 2020, the world said goodbye to Freeman Dyson, was a British American physicist and mathematic
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan