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Natural Sciences
Natural sciences are concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena which are based on emperical evidence. Branches of natural sciences include physical sciences (chemistry, physics, astronomy) and life sciences (biology, zoology).
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NOV 06, 2017Earth & The Environment
Good news from NASA, everyone! Measurements from satellites this past year showed that the hole in Earth's ozone lay ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 05, 2017Earth & The Environment
Need a pick me up? Go outside. New research from UBC provides even more proof that spending time outside makes us happie ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 03, 2017Microbiology
The thenatomicrobiome refers to the microbial community existing on or in an animal or human host after it dies. Better ...Written By: Sarah HertrichNOV 02, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
PSA: Rabies is not a minor illness that will go away on its own. One person in Florida recently contracted rabies from a ...NOV 01, 2017Chemistry & Physics
An international team of physicists has produced high-intensity gamma beams that have the energy a billion times higher ...Written By: Daniel DuanOCT 30, 2017Plants & Animals
The Amazon Basin Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus batesii) can be found throughout South America, residing in the vast rainfor ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 29, 2017Earth & The Environment
What would you say are the leading causes of death globally? Would you say hunger? Or water-borne diseases? Heart attack ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 26, 2017Plants & Animals
The Eastern black rhinoceros is a critically-endangered sub-species of the black rhinoceros, and while their population ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 25, 2017Plants & Animals
As if some critically-endangered animals’ lives weren’t difficult enough, natural disasters like hurricanes ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 25, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Juno probe reached the Jovian system last Summer, exciting scientists with the thought that we might begin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 23, 2017Neuroscience
Do you ever come home from a shopping trip, look at a purchase and say, "What was I thinking?" If so, you are ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 20, 2017Earth & The Environment
It might be news to you that environmental disturbances and climate patterns like as El Niño can be influential e ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 19, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists are trying to reach out to the general public to help people understand more about the work that researchers ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 19, 2017Plants & Animals
As gross as many people think they are, insects are vital to the fragile ecosystem around us. Unfortunately, pollinators ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 18, 2017Space & Astronomy
It was just a few days ago that astronomers announced a breakthrough in gravitational wave research, and NASA deployed t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 14, 2017Earth & The Environment
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utilized collections of old birds from natural histor ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 12, 2017Plants & Animals
Singapore Zoo visitors will have a new attraction to check out this week, as the park is finally allowing its new white ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 11, 2017Plants & Animals
A 55-pound Kemp’s ridley sea turtle dubbed ‘Peach’ was officially released back into the wild on Monda ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2017Videos
Toronto Zoo recently shared this compilation footage that showcases captive giant panda cubs as they hysterically tumble ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2017Plants & Animals
At least 100 hippopotamuses are dead in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park as of last week, and animal experts and v ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2017Videos
It's that time of year again. With the falling leaves and back to school comes the ever popular, pumpkin spice latte. Th ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 09, 2017Plants & Animals
Almost like a predetermined set of blueprints, mother nature hosts a plethora of plant types around the globe. Many plan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 08, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Chromosomes have to be organized through a process called loop extrusion, and scientists have found the motor driving th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Good news from NASA, everyone! Measurements from satellites this past year showed that the hole in Earth's ozone lay
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 05, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Need a pick me up? Go outside. New research from UBC provides even more proof that spending time outside makes us happie
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 03, 2017
Microbiology
The thenatomicrobiome refers to the microbial community existing on or in an animal or human host after it dies. Better
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 02, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
PSA: Rabies is not a minor illness that will go away on its own. One person in Florida recently contracted rabies from a
...
NOV 01, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
An international team of physicists has produced high-intensity gamma beams that have the energy a billion times higher
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 30, 2017
Plants & Animals
The Amazon Basin Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus batesii) can be found throughout South America, residing in the vast rainfor
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2017
Earth & The Environment
What would you say are the leading causes of death globally? Would you say hunger? Or water-borne diseases? Heart attack
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 26, 2017
Plants & Animals
The Eastern black rhinoceros is a critically-endangered sub-species of the black rhinoceros, and while their population
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 25, 2017
Plants & Animals
As if some critically-endangered animals’ lives weren’t difficult enough, natural disasters like hurricanes
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Juno probe reached the Jovian system last Summer, exciting scientists with the thought that we might begin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 23, 2017
Neuroscience
Do you ever come home from a shopping trip, look at a purchase and say, "What was I thinking?" If so, you are
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 20, 2017
Earth & The Environment
It might be news to you that environmental disturbances and climate patterns like as El Niño can be influential e
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 19, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists are trying to reach out to the general public to help people understand more about the work that researchers
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
As gross as many people think they are, insects are vital to the fragile ecosystem around us. Unfortunately, pollinators
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It was just a few days ago that astronomers announced a breakthrough in gravitational wave research, and NASA deployed t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 14, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utilized collections of old birds from natural histor
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 12, 2017
Plants & Animals
Singapore Zoo visitors will have a new attraction to check out this week, as the park is finally allowing its new white
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2017
Plants & Animals
A 55-pound Kemp’s ridley sea turtle dubbed ‘Peach’ was officially released back into the wild on Monda
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2017
Videos
Toronto Zoo recently shared this compilation footage that showcases captive giant panda cubs as they hysterically tumble
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2017
Plants & Animals
At least 100 hippopotamuses are dead in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park as of last week, and animal experts and v
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2017
Videos
It's that time of year again. With the falling leaves and back to school comes the ever popular, pumpkin spice latte. Th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 09, 2017
Plants & Animals
Almost like a predetermined set of blueprints, mother nature hosts a plethora of plant types around the globe. Many plan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 08, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Chromosomes have to be organized through a process called loop extrusion, and scientists have found the motor driving th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard