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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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NOV 18, 2016
Videos
For some animals that don't have sharp teeth or claws, or other types of classic defense mechanisms, evolution has helpe
...
NOV 16, 2016
Videos
NASA may have retired the Space Shuttle program many years ago, but that doesn't mean you can't learn a thing or two abo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 15, 2016
Videos
Pesticides are man-made chemicals we use to control insects, fungi, and other pests that might negatively affect food cr
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
NOV 12, 2016
Plants & Animals
Were dinosaurs smart? We may have the first chance to find out after having found what appears to be an old fossil of a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 10, 2016
Plants & Animals
If you were a bird o you think you could flap your wings for 10 months straight without feeling tired? A new stud
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2016
Plants & Animals
Biologists have long been stumped while thinking about where jaw evolution may have begun with life on Earth. One of the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 19, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Genes encode for proteins, and proper function of the human body depends on the regulation of the gene expression by the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 17, 2016
Space & Astronomy
We know that the universe is big – really big – and that there are a ton of galaxies out there that contain
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2016
Microbiology
Viruses and spider toxin? Sounds like a superhero’s origin story. Not quite. Researchers from Vanderbilt Universit
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 12, 2016
Videos
The evolution of the single-celled organism, cyanobacteria, almost wiped out life on earth. Cyanobacteria were the prima
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
OCT 12, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Almost four years ago a group of Nigerian teens unveiled a urine-powered generator at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos. Duro-
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 11, 2016
Videos
Space travel takes its toll on astronauts. Microgravity can affect muscle and bone growth. Radiation can cause damaging
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
OCT 07, 2016
Plants & Animals
The origin of teeth in the evolutionary mystery of the world’s animal timeline is very much a mystery. We know ani
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Image Credit: Noel Clark, University of Colorado LA JOLLA, CA – September 28, 2016 – A new study led by scie
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
SEP 24, 2016
Microbiology
For as long as civilization has existed, the enjoyment of fermented drinks has been a part of various cultures and tradi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 20, 2016
Videos
Scientists made a startling discovery about our planet in 1974. They found that chemicals common in spray cans, known as
...
SEP 14, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s no mystery that astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious Planet Nine somewhere out in the far reaches of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 11, 2016
Plants & Animals
Science today is becoming a lot more like the science fiction of 30 years ago. The minds of great scientists have come u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 09, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists working in collaboration at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have pub
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 08, 2016
Health & Medicine
LA JOLLA, CA – September 8, 2016 – A series of new studies led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institu
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
SEP 08, 2016
Neuroscience
In the millions of years of evolution, humans developed strong muscles for hunting and gathering, digestion to get the m
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 01, 2016
Plants & Animals
The Galapagos Islands have been all the recent buzz swirling around the discovery of a native species of songbird that i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 01, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have proposed a new theory for the development of complex organisms from a single cell and it’s called
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 31, 2016
Cancer
Cancer cells know when they’re being attacked. And one of their best counterattack strategies is to pump the chemo
...