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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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JUN 04, 2023Earth & 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, 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
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, MScMAY 29, 2023Microbiology
Microbes are vital partners for many species. There are gut microbiomes in a huge number of animals, for example, which ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 28, 2023Space & 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, MScMAY 27, 2023Space & 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, 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, MScMAY 25, 2023Microbiology
Plastic waste is a major problem around the world... But, one that microbes could help us tackle.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 25, 2023Earth & The Environment
Can we use artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor environmental sites using remote sensing images, either from satellit ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 24, 2023Space & Astronomy
The rings of Saturn are one of the most recognizable and awe-inspiring sights in astronomy, as they can be easily discer ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 22, 2023Genetics & Genomics
DNA from the Nama people (photo by Justin Myrick-Tarrant) helped researchers develop a new theory of human evolution.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 15, 2023Microbiology
A major event in the evolution of organisms on earth was the development of complex, multicellular life forms made of eu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 08, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Although a rapid growth, perennial South African plant called the wooly umbrella is not related to the cannabis plant, i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 30, 2023Genetics & Genomics
Researchers participating in the Zoonomia project have just published a trove of papers outlining numerous findings from ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 29, 2023Genetics & Genomics
The Zoonomia project is an international effort to understand how a huge array of diverse creatures can arise from mamma ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 28, 2023Space & Astronomy
What did galaxies look like in the early universe and how did they form and evolve over time? This is something that NAS ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAPR 28, 2023Microbiology
New research has suggested that Earth's first animal probably used chemical signals to grow from one cell into an or ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 26, 2023Earth & The Environment
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities recently published two studies in Science that help shed might on ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAPR 12, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Genomes are constantly changing. Bacterial cells can easily share genes, and even cells in human can incorporate new DNA ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 11, 2023Microbiology
Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have found that a virus spread by ticks, P ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 31, 2023Space & Astronomy
Carl Sagan is famously quoted for saying, "We are made of star stuff", because when a star dies, it sheds its material b ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 28, 2023Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists led by the Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias (IAC) examine the interaction betwee ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAR 24, 2023Health & Medicine
Over the years, animals have evolved to have functioning livers or at least liver enzymes with the capability of metabol ...Written By: Greta Anne
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
MAY 25, 2023
Microbiology
Plastic waste is a major problem around the world... But, one that microbes could help us tackle.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 25, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Can we use artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor environmental sites using remote sensing images, either from satellit
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 24, 2023
Space & Astronomy
The rings of Saturn are one of the most recognizable and awe-inspiring sights in astronomy, as they can be easily discer
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 22, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
DNA from the Nama people (photo by Justin Myrick-Tarrant) helped researchers develop a new theory of human evolution.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 15, 2023
Microbiology
A major event in the evolution of organisms on earth was the development of complex, multicellular life forms made of eu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 08, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Although a rapid growth, perennial South African plant called the wooly umbrella is not related to the cannabis plant, i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 30, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers participating in the Zoonomia project have just published a trove of papers outlining numerous findings from
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 29, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
The Zoonomia project is an international effort to understand how a huge array of diverse creatures can arise from mamma
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 28, 2023
Space & Astronomy
What did galaxies look like in the early universe and how did they form and evolve over time? This is something that NAS
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 28, 2023
Microbiology
New research has suggested that Earth's first animal probably used chemical signals to grow from one cell into an or
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 26, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities recently published two studies in Science that help shed might on
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 12, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Genomes are constantly changing. Bacterial cells can easily share genes, and even cells in human can incorporate new DNA
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 11, 2023
Microbiology
Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have found that a virus spread by ticks, P
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 31, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Carl Sagan is famously quoted for saying, "We are made of star stuff", because when a star dies, it sheds its material b
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 28, 2023
Space & Astronomy
An international team of scientists led by the Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias (IAC) examine the interaction betwee
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAR 24, 2023
Health & Medicine
Over the years, animals have evolved to have functioning livers or at least liver enzymes with the capability of metabol
...
Written By:
Greta Anne