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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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AUG 02, 2023Space & Astronomy
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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
JUL 03, 2023
Space & Astronomy
While NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is primarily known for capturing breathtaking infrared images of th
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 30, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters examines new insights into gravitational waves from 15 yea
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 28, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters discusses how astronomers used the Atacama
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 26, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution examines how the effects of climate change, specifically the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 19, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
In the 1970s, an entirely new group of organisms that were not bacterial or eukaryotic was discovered - archaea. Some ar
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 14, 2023
Space & Astronomy
While asteroids are the lesser-known populace of the solar system, they have possibly the greatest significance as these
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 13, 2023
Earth & The Environment
For decades, scientists have accepted a particular theory regarding the evolution Earth’s plate tectonics, but a r
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 12, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A study published today in Nature Astronomy examines the confirmation of a second exoplanet that resides in what’s
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 11, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
About a decade ago, research teams showed that modern humans still carry remnants of Neanderthal DNA, confirming that Ne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 09, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Microplastics are small plastic particles less than five millimeters long. They can come from larger plastic pieces whic
...
Written By:
Amelia Rhodeland
JUN 05, 2023
Microbiology
Sargassum is a brown macroalgae that is abundant in the ocean. It has many appendages and 'berries' that are ful
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch