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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 recent study published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution examines how new imaging methods can be used to observe new ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 25, 2023Space & Astronomy
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently released a stunning image of the young star system, V960 Mon, which is ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 20, 2023Space & Astronomy
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Recent headlines have highlighted the unusual ways that whales can behave when they come into contact with humans. Repor ...Written By: Amelia Rhodeland
SEP 13, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
What’s the story behind DNA melting temperature analysis? UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy can be used to assess
...
Sponsored By:
Thermo Fisher Scientific
SEP 06, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA announced today that the Psyche spacecraft is still scheduled to begin its launch window on October 5th and spans t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 30, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Current Biology discusses an almost perfectly preserved, 520-million-year-old arthropod foss
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 30, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
At least 50 different animals including dogs, cats, raccoons, and white-tailed deer can be infected with the virus that
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Nature examines the confirmation of Maisie’s galaxy existing approximately 390 million
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 12, 2023
Earth & The Environment
An international team of scientists have examined the ancient history of atmospheric CO2 on Earth and unraveled its effe
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
AUG 11, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Though now extinct, ammonoids (a group of marine mollusks with shells) evolved for 350 million years, always with a tend
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
AUG 09, 2023
Space & Astronomy
While the batteries on NASA’s InSight lander officially ran out of juice in December 2022, scientists are still po
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 07, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in the journal Geology and led by researchers at the University of Hawai’I (UH) examines
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 04, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacterial cells can easily share genes with one another, and have a few ways to do so. Viruses called bacteriophages inf
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 03, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Messier 57, more commonly known as the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula located approximately 2,600 light-years from E
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 02, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently imaged a massive galaxy cluster called “El Gordo” (S
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 28, 2023
Space & Astronomy
How do young planets form around young stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes t
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 28, 2023
Space & Astronomy
We’ve all heard these phrases at least once. But when we do, we ask what exactly dark matter and dark energy are a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 27, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Humans have a distinctive skeleton, and are the only bipedal great apes. While the evolution of the human skeleton enabl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 26, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution examines how new imaging methods can be used to observe new
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 25, 2023
Space & Astronomy
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently released a stunning image of the young star system, V960 Mon, which is
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 20, 2023
Space & Astronomy
NASA recently announced they will be funding three science projects that will conduct experiments during the total solar
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 19, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics examines how a distant galaxy potentially doesn’t possess d
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 16, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Before the Cambrian explosion, also known as the biological big bang, produced a huge array of animals. But the foundati
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 12, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Asp caterpillars are also known as Megalopyge opercularis; one is seen in this image from the University of Queensland,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 11, 2023
Space & Astronomy
The Moon is getting another instrument to explore its vast history as the Magnetic Anomaly Plasma Spectrometer (MAPS) in
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 10, 2023
Microbiology
A few years ago, scientists discovered that a species of bacteria called Geobacter carried an appendage that could condu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Recent headlines have highlighted the unusual ways that whales can behave when they come into contact with humans. Repor
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland