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Oxygen
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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Although the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 04, 2015Videos
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Understanding the function of certain groups of non-coding RNAs will lead to a greater understanding of how certain illn ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 30, 2015Earth & The Environment
For most of human history dams were seen as good things. They provided power, at first by mill wheel, later by turbine. ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopAPR 29, 2015Neuroscience
Nerve cells and blood vessels engage in a chemical discussion to keep healthy and avoid disease, according to a new stud ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 28, 2015Earth & The Environment
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Scientific dogma has the respiration process involving only two elements-oxygen and carbon dioxide. Specifically, the de ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 22, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
In surprising new research on the evolution of different forms of photosynthesis, scientists have found that the prized ...Written By: Will Hector
AUG 20, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
By storing information in DNA, large amounts of data can be preserved in a very stable fashion, according to Robert N. G
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 11, 2015
Videos
The atmosphere of Earth wasn't always full of oxygen. At one point, the world was void of multi-cellular organisms, and
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 11, 2015
Neuroscience
A drug already been in use to treat liver disease may slow down the progression of Parkinson's disease, according to sci
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 09, 2015
Earth & The Environment
For most farms, manure and urine from their animals is a big problem. But the farmers at Homestead Dairy in Plymouth, In
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
AUG 06, 2015
Cancer
How do tumors grow, and how can they be stopped? A collaborative study between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 06, 2015
Videos
We're pretty good at cooking a mean steak on the grill, but here's a way to cook some steak that comes down to pure scie
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 01, 2015
Videos
Dry ice is different from regular ice. Rather than being frozen water, dry ice is actually frozen carbon dioxide. In thi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 21, 2015
Microbiology
You just stumbled upon the first installment of "Better Know a Microbe", a series of articles that highlights the world
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 21, 2015
Neuroscience
Psychologists know that adults learn from experience in order to gain a reward, get to the finish line faster or avoid a
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 20, 2015
Space & Astronomy
It was just a few weeks ago that NASA's commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft failed to deliver supplies to the Internat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 20, 2015
Videos
Although most bacteria cannot colonize in the high acidity and low oxygen conditions in brewing beer, the bacteria that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 17, 2015
Microbiology
On a morning in March 2014, the South China Morning Post reported the discovery of a Megavirus, recovered from the ancie
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 14, 2015
Neuroscience
Circadian clocks enable all living things to schedule their days so as not to be caught off guard by sunrise and sunset.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 05, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Those stranded aboard the International Space Station can finally sit back and relax on Sunday.
Although the ...
Although the ...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 04, 2015
Videos
Space exploration is a very important activity that humans have a big interest in. For whatever reason, we just obsessed
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 24, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Hydrogen has long been the holy grail of clean energy. The problem up to this point has been that the only economically
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 01, 2015
Space & Astronomy
The search for life on other planets is an age old quest. Astronomers, scientists, astronauts and regular backyard starg
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 27, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Well, it seems Elon Musk is no longer alone in non-governmental entities who are planning to colonize Mars. A new group
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 14, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Understanding the function of certain groups of non-coding RNAs will lead to a greater understanding of how certain illn
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 30, 2015
Earth & The Environment
For most of human history dams were seen as good things. They provided power, at first by mill wheel, later by turbine.
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
APR 29, 2015
Neuroscience
Nerve cells and blood vessels engage in a chemical discussion to keep healthy and avoid disease, according to a new stud
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 28, 2015
Earth & The Environment
So, we want to have a hydrogen fueled future, right? It's a truly clean fuel that doesn't emit CO2 when burned. It would
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
APR 23, 2015
Cardiology
Scientific dogma has the respiration process involving only two elements-oxygen and carbon dioxide. Specifically, the de
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 22, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
In surprising new research on the evolution of different forms of photosynthesis, scientists have found that the prized
...
Written By:
Will Hector