Follow
Species
Species is a basic taxonomy unit in biology used for defining a group of organisms that share common genetic heritage and are able to interbreed.
-
AUG 15, 2022Plants & Animals
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences discusses hibernation as the sec ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 15, 2022Microbiology
Chronic alcohol use is a serious health problem, and a major contributor to liver disease and mortality. The gut microbi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 15, 2022Neuroscience
Researchers found that reduced human activity due to COVID-19 lockdowns expanded bird populations' range of habitats ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 14, 2022Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota (U-M) conducted a five-yea ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 12, 2022Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers discuss how the increasing ho ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 10, 2022Health & Medicine
Zoonotic diseases, which can jump from one species to another, are not unusual. As the world's population rises and the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 07, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have known that vitamin K has antioxidant properties, but the mechanism behind that function remained obscur ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 06, 2022Earth & The Environment
114 years ago, the first and only nearly complete Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) skeleton was found in a cave in Fr ...Written By: Mandy WoodsAUG 05, 2022Plants & Animals
Here’s a little good news for the day: certain areas of the Great Barrier Reef have the highest amount of coral co ...Written By: Ryan VingumAUG 04, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers used new long-read genetic sequencing technology to show that there are bacterial genomes within the genome ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 29, 2022Microbiology
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and scientists have searched for the origins of the virus. After i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 29, 2022Immunology
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. Since we first encountered it in late 2019, the virus has continued to mut ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 26, 2022Neuroscience
Ant colonies make decisions similarly to neural networks in the brain. The corresponding study was published in PNAS.&nb ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 24, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Human egg cells, called oocytes, have to last a long time. They are created before birth, and they stay viable for many ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 22, 2022Earth & The Environment
A recent and comprehensive study out of Flinders University in Australia that was published in BMC Ecology and Evolution ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 21, 2022Plants & Animals
A recent study from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and published in Science Advances discusses how plants ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 18, 2022Plants & Animals
As one of the earliest domesticated animals, dogs evolved from wolves into what we now know as extremely diverse domesti ...Written By: Mandy WoodsJUL 17, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Biomolecular condensates can concentrate important components of the cell together. But other structures form too.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 15, 2022Immunology
After a virus gets inside of a cell, it typically takes over the cell to produce more viral particles. But pox viruses g ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 14, 2022Chemistry & Physics
Scientists have discovered evidence of fire dating back at least 800,000 years. Fire has been essential to human evoluti ...Written By: Hannah DanielJUL 14, 2022Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and China reveal in a recent study published in Science Advances how ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 13, 2022Genetics & Genomics
There are billions of nucleotides in the human genome, and researchers once thought that there were as many as 100,000 p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 12, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Sperm and egg cells, or gametes, are unusual. Egg cells are some of the largest cell types, and sperm are some of the sm ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 12, 2022Microbiology
Many fibromyalgia patients spent years waiting for clinicians to acknowledge their condition, and researchers have been ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2022
Plants & Animals
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences discusses hibernation as the sec
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 15, 2022
Microbiology
Chronic alcohol use is a serious health problem, and a major contributor to liver disease and mortality. The gut microbi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 15, 2022
Neuroscience
Researchers found that reduced human activity due to COVID-19 lockdowns expanded bird populations' range of habitats
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 14, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota (U-M) conducted a five-yea
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 12, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers discuss how the increasing ho
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 10, 2022
Health & Medicine
Zoonotic diseases, which can jump from one species to another, are not unusual. As the world's population rises and the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 07, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have known that vitamin K has antioxidant properties, but the mechanism behind that function remained obscur
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 06, 2022
Earth & The Environment
114 years ago, the first and only nearly complete Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) skeleton was found in a cave in Fr
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
AUG 05, 2022
Plants & Animals
Here’s a little good news for the day: certain areas of the Great Barrier Reef have the highest amount of coral co
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
AUG 04, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers used new long-read genetic sequencing technology to show that there are bacterial genomes within the genome
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 29, 2022
Microbiology
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and scientists have searched for the origins of the virus. After i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 29, 2022
Immunology
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. Since we first encountered it in late 2019, the virus has continued to mut
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 26, 2022
Neuroscience
Ant colonies make decisions similarly to neural networks in the brain. The corresponding study was published in PNAS.&nb
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 24, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Human egg cells, called oocytes, have to last a long time. They are created before birth, and they stay viable for many
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 22, 2022
Earth & The Environment
A recent and comprehensive study out of Flinders University in Australia that was published in BMC Ecology and Evolution
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 21, 2022
Plants & Animals
A recent study from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and published in Science Advances discusses how plants
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 18, 2022
Plants & Animals
As one of the earliest domesticated animals, dogs evolved from wolves into what we now know as extremely diverse domesti
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
JUL 17, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Biomolecular condensates can concentrate important components of the cell together. But other structures form too.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 15, 2022
Immunology
After a virus gets inside of a cell, it typically takes over the cell to produce more viral particles. But pox viruses g
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 14, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Scientists have discovered evidence of fire dating back at least 800,000 years. Fire has been essential to human evoluti
...
Written By:
Hannah Daniel
JUL 14, 2022
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and China reveal in a recent study published in Science Advances how
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 13, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
There are billions of nucleotides in the human genome, and researchers once thought that there were as many as 100,000 p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 12, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Sperm and egg cells, or gametes, are unusual. Egg cells are some of the largest cell types, and sperm are some of the sm
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 12, 2022
Microbiology
Many fibromyalgia patients spent years waiting for clinicians to acknowledge their condition, and researchers have been
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch