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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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OCT 10, 2023Genetics & Genomics
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A recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics examines how a distant galaxy potentially doesn’t possess d ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 10, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
In the past few years, the H5N1 bird flu has led to the deaths of millions of wild and farmed birds around the world. It
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 06, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
While testing a new way to sequence genes, researchers stumbled upon a very rare divergence in the genetic code, which t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 03, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters uses computer simulations to uncover the formation and evo
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 26, 2023
Space & Astronomy
This past Sunday, September 24, 2023, marked the end of a journey that spanned just over seven years and billions of mil
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 21, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Some scientists have suggested that a sixth mass extinction is underway on Earth. A new study has confirmed those findin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
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