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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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JUL 16, 2023Genetics & Genomics
Before the Cambrian explosion, also known as the biological big bang, produced a huge array of animals. But the foundati ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 12, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
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While NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is primarily known for capturing breathtaking infrared images of th ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 30, 2023Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters examines new insights into gravitational waves from 15 yea ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 28, 2023Space & Astronomy
A recent study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters discusses how astronomers used the Atacama ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 26, 2023Earth & The Environment
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A recent study published in Biology Letters examines how the evolution of bivalves—which are a class of invertebra ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 02, 2023Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Nature examines how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified water vapo ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 01, 2023Microbiology
Humans and other primates carry complex communities of microbes in our guts, and while we know how important these micro ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 31, 2023Space & Astronomy
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How do supernovas occur? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers exami ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 26, 2023Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Nature examines the discovery of an Earth-sized exoplanet, LP 791-18 d, located 86 light-yea ...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
JUN 04, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in Biology Letters examines how the evolution of bivalves—which are a class of invertebra
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 02, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Nature examines how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified water vapo
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 01, 2023
Microbiology
Humans and other primates carry complex communities of microbes in our guts, and while we know how important these micro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 31, 2023
Space & Astronomy
On May 11, NASA announced that researchers at Georgia Tech have been awarded $7.5 million to run a new center called the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 29, 2023
Microbiology
Microbes are vital partners for many species. There are gut microbiomes in a huge number of animals, for example, which
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 28, 2023
Space & Astronomy
The Axiom-2 mission is currently docked at the International Space Station (ISS) and due to return to Earth on May 31. A
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 27, 2023
Space & Astronomy
How do supernovas occur? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers exami
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 26, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A recent study published in Nature examines the discovery of an Earth-sized exoplanet, LP 791-18 d, located 86 light-yea
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc