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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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MAR 27, 2019Space & Astronomy
Astronomers use a bevy of different methods to analyze distant exoplanets, but the GRAVITY instrument attached to the Eu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 27, 2019Plants & Animals
Venus flytraps are perhaps one of the world’s most widely-recognized carnivorous plants, with its snap trap being ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 26, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Graphene has long been known for its semiconductor capabilities and now it's being put to work in biosensors. Kiana Aran ...Written By: Hilary ThompsonMAR 26, 2019Microbiology
Babies that are born before 37 weeks of gestation are considered premature. About one in ten babies in the United States ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 26, 2019Space & Astronomy
The International Space Station has been bustling with a full crew ever since expedition 59-60 first arrived at the Eart ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 25, 2019Cell & Molecular Biology
Mammals start out as a fertilized egg, and as that cell divides and proliferates into many more new cells, huge molecula ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 25, 2019Plants & Animals
Shark attacks aren’t particularly common, but that doesn’t mean they don’t happen every now and again. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 25, 2019Plants & Animals
A new African black-footed penguin was just recently put on display at Poland’s Gdansk Zoo for park visitors to lo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 24, 2019Genetics & Genomics
A team of researchers wanted to know more about how aging and raising offspring are related, and looked to the Seychelle ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 22, 2019Earth & The Environment
New research from scientists at the University of Guelph sheds light on how climate change is impacting food webs in Can ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 22, 2019Health & Medicine
Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) is a term used to describe every cause of acute-onset of obsessiv ...Written By: Dena ArutaMAR 21, 2019Chemistry & Physics
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe just after hydrogen, but only making up 0.0005% of Earth' ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAR 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
The U.K. is facing a severe water crisis. At the Waterwise Conference in London this week, Sir James Bevan—the chi ...Written By: Tiffany DazetMAR 20, 2019Plants & Animals
A variety of different factors threaten many of the world's natural pollinators, and monarch butterflies are no exce ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 20, 2019Earth & The Environment
Wildlife tourism is increasing at an estimated 10% growth per year and in 2013 (the last year with full data) there were ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 19, 2019Genetics & Genomics
It’s the first thing you learn in biology. There are four nucleotides which are adenine, cytosine, gu ...Written By: Amanda MikyskaMAR 19, 2019Plants & Animals
A plethora of the globe’s marine animals are in trouble, but one of the most notable is that of the Mediterranean ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 19, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Thousands of genes are needed to generate the machinery that carries out photosynthesis.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 18, 2019Microbiology
K. stuttgartiensis is a model anammox microorganism - it's an anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes ammonia / Image: Laura v ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 18, 2019Plants & Animals
A bit of fun and exciting news for all those animal lovers out there: April the Giraffe from New York’s renowned A ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 17, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder impacting as many as 200,000 people in the US, and is thought to often go undiagn ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 14, 2019Cannabis Sciences
Cirrhosis accounts for 31,000 deaths per year. Approximately 3.5 to 4.6 million people in the U.S. are chronic ...Written By: Amy LoriauxMAR 14, 2019Genetics & Genomics
Researchers took a biomedical approach to examine the impact of two different pesticides on gene expression in bees.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 13, 2019Plants & Animals
Germany is home to a small species of nocturnal owl called the ‘little owl’ (Athene noctua), and while the G ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
MAR 27, 2019
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers use a bevy of different methods to analyze distant exoplanets, but the GRAVITY instrument attached to the Eu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 27, 2019
Plants & Animals
Venus flytraps are perhaps one of the world’s most widely-recognized carnivorous plants, with its snap trap being
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 26, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Graphene has long been known for its semiconductor capabilities and now it's being put to work in biosensors. Kiana Aran
...
Written By:
Hilary Thompson
MAR 26, 2019
Microbiology
Babies that are born before 37 weeks of gestation are considered premature. About one in ten babies in the United States
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 26, 2019
Space & Astronomy
The International Space Station has been bustling with a full crew ever since expedition 59-60 first arrived at the Eart
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 25, 2019
Cell & Molecular Biology
Mammals start out as a fertilized egg, and as that cell divides and proliferates into many more new cells, huge molecula
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 25, 2019
Plants & Animals
Shark attacks aren’t particularly common, but that doesn’t mean they don’t happen every now and again.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 25, 2019
Plants & Animals
A new African black-footed penguin was just recently put on display at Poland’s Gdansk Zoo for park visitors to lo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 24, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
A team of researchers wanted to know more about how aging and raising offspring are related, and looked to the Seychelle
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2019
Earth & The Environment
New research from scientists at the University of Guelph sheds light on how climate change is impacting food webs in Can
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 22, 2019
Health & Medicine
Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) is a term used to describe every cause of acute-onset of obsessiv
...
Written By:
Dena Aruta
MAR 21, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe just after hydrogen, but only making up 0.0005% of Earth'
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
The U.K. is facing a severe water crisis. At the Waterwise Conference in London this week, Sir James Bevan—the chi
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
MAR 20, 2019
Plants & Animals
A variety of different factors threaten many of the world's natural pollinators, and monarch butterflies are no exce
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 20, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Wildlife tourism is increasing at an estimated 10% growth per year and in 2013 (the last year with full data) there were
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 19, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
It’s the first thing you learn in biology. There are four nucleotides which are adenine, cytosine, gu
...
Written By:
Amanda Mikyska
MAR 19, 2019
Plants & Animals
A plethora of the globe’s marine animals are in trouble, but one of the most notable is that of the Mediterranean
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 19, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Thousands of genes are needed to generate the machinery that carries out photosynthesis.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2019
Microbiology
K. stuttgartiensis is a model anammox microorganism - it's an anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes ammonia / Image: Laura v
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2019
Plants & Animals
A bit of fun and exciting news for all those animal lovers out there: April the Giraffe from New York’s renowned A
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 17, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder impacting as many as 200,000 people in the US, and is thought to often go undiagn
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 14, 2019
Cannabis Sciences
Cirrhosis accounts for 31,000 deaths per year. Approximately 3.5 to 4.6 million people in the U.S. are chronic
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
MAR 14, 2019
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers took a biomedical approach to examine the impact of two different pesticides on gene expression in bees.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 13, 2019
Plants & Animals
Germany is home to a small species of nocturnal owl called the ‘little owl’ (Athene noctua), and while the G
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard