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Oxygen: is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as well as with other compounds.
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While it’s well known that exercise has many health benefits for the cardiovascular system, muscles and bone stren ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 11, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
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Pancreatic cancer stem cells (PancSCs) are virtually addicted to oxygen-based metabolism, and could be “suffocated ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 16, 2015Neuroscience
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NOV 17, 2015
Neuroscience
While it’s well known that exercise has many health benefits for the cardiovascular system, muscles and bone stren
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 11, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body including cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. S
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 06, 2015
Space & Astronomy
A little over one year ago, on October 28th 2014, NASA tried to launch the Antares rocket by Orbital Sciences (now known
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 06, 2015
Plants & Animals
Come Fall each year, the leaves on the trees turn a beautiful orange/brown/yellow color that makes the world look like s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 30, 2015
Technology
It’s not too far from the truth that batteries make today’s world go ‘round. We’re far from the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 29, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been orbiting comet 67P with the Rosetta spacecraft since 2014 in an attempt to lear
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 24, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
The mechanism by which the plant immune system operates is through the detection of conserved microbial components such
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
OCT 23, 2015
Microbiology
This installment of “Better Know a Microbe” is all about “magnetotactic” bacteria! Bacter
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Part I of this article explained how a team from MIT has come up with a revolutionary new weight and cost-saving plan fo
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Going to Mars is something we Earthlings have wanted to do for centuries. By some estimates, we’ve had the necessa
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
OCT 15, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Neural stem cells give rise to neurons, which are the cells which make up the nervous system including the brain. They a
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
OCT 12, 2015
Microbiology
Bacteria have the capacity to produce numerous substances for commercial and industrial applications. Despite this
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 03, 2015
Videos
It seems like only science fiction has ever been able to put people on a planet to live in a controlled environment for
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 24, 2015
Neuroscience
While it is well known that smoking can cause lung cancer, heart disease and strokes, along with a myriad of other cardi
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 21, 2015
Microbiology
Researchers studying the symbiotic relationship between methane-oxidizing archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria have mad
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 21, 2015
Space & Astronomy
While the US is developing hyper-sonic vehicles to deliver explosive payloads or to do surveillance, researchers at the
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
SEP 16, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer stem cells (PancSCs) are virtually addicted to oxygen-based metabolism, and could be “suffocated
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 16, 2015
Neuroscience
What does the eye say about the psyche? Researchers at Rutgers University and Mount Sinai’s New York Eye and Ear I
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 14, 2015
Microbiology
This week Food Safety News named the 5 most dangerous foodborne pathogens. You may have heard of some of them due to med
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
SEP 14, 2015
Health & Medicine
Last week, a giant virus was recovered from the permafrost in northeastern Russia by a French team lead by Dr. Jean
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 11, 2015
Health & Medicine
One Michigan-based company thinks algae may hold a cure for blindness. RetroSense Therapeutics will soon conduct a
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 29, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Yesterday’s part I of this article (http://labroots.com/trending/id/1590/caltech-team-announces-their-creation-of-
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 28, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Solar energy is the perfect energy source, except for one thing: you can’t store it, at least, you couldn’t
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 24, 2015
Videos
Although we live on Earth and often take its resources for granted, it still continues to baffle scientists that Earth i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard