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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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MAR 21, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Until the incredibly infectious Omicron variant emerged and took over, it seemed like there was a never-ending stream of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 20, 2023
Immunology
When the immune system sense an infection, it launches a response that includes inflammation. Red skin, fatigue, or feve
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 14, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
A new study has highlighted how reproductive biology and human behavior influence the number of children a person might
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 10, 2023
Plants & Animals
Fossils provide important clues into a world long before humans. They allow us to see not only the kinds of organisms th
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
MAR 10, 2023
Health & Medicine
While the world became very familiar with mRNA vaccines because of the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines have been around
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 06, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Ocean worlds are becoming a hot topic in the fields of planetary science and astrobiology, as Jupiter's moon, Europa, an
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 27, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Planet Earth is a marvelous geological machine responsible for life to exist here. It is a machine that churns and spews
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 23, 2023
Plants & Animals
Researchers find evidence that Neandertals hunted and butchered prehistoric elephants, which could feed communities for
...
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
FEB 19, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Recent work reported in Nature highlighted the importance of methylation on mRNA; these chemical tags can have a dramati
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 17, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Plant pathogens are the unseen enemy. According to the Encyclopedia of Microbiology, plant disease is defined as a state
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
FEB 16, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system was formed from a solar nebula, which is a rotating cloud of gas a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 15, 2023
Plants & Animals
Neandertals show love in many ways--partnerships, caring for sick community members, and with intentional burials.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
FEB 13, 2023
Plants & Animals
Two new (unrelated) studies find that Paranthropus made stone tools at a site in Kenya and obsidian was used for tools 5
...
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
FEB 12, 2023
Earth & The Environment
February 12 has come to be known as Darwin Day. In honor of this day, here's a look at how Darwin's ideas evolved.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
FEB 08, 2023
Immunology
The immune system can mount crucial defenses when our bodies are threatened by pathogens. But those defenses have to be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 07, 2023
Space & Astronomy
A team of astronomers have captured the first direct image of a brown dwarf orbiting a star. The research was led by the
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
FEB 07, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Studying astronomical objects is like peering through a window of time, where astronomers can study the universe’s
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 06, 2023
Plants & Animals
New research shows that humans can understand ape gestures, even if they have not seen them before.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
FEB 04, 2023
Health & Medicine
The pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 continues to cause infections as it mutates into new variants. While the vaccines that are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 31, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Setting up reliable controls is one of the priorities that any scientist should be concerned with when engaging in scien
...
Sponsored By:
Slingshot Biosciences, Inc.
JAN 30, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that there is great diversity of galaxies in the early Univers
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JAN 26, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
A new study shows that Vikings were more genetically diverse than contemporary Scandinavians
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 24, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A new study reports that if the 120 endangered mammals in Madagascar go extinct, it will take 23 million years to replac
...
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
JAN 18, 2023
Neuroscience
New research shows that neuron dentisty in the T. rex brain may be most similar to modern-day baboons.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt