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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.
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SEP 28, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola ...Written By: Daniel DuanSEP 27, 2017Infographics
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) each keep track of the c ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 27, 2017Videos
Farming is a repetitive process of plowing land, placing seeds, watering the seeds, fertilizing the planted seeds, and h ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 27, 2017Earth & The Environment
Okay, so let’s admit it: we know very little about the depths of our oceans. But staring straight into the face of ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 26, 2017Plants & Animals
Animal lovers won’t like hearing one bit og this, but Japan formally announced this week that it slaughtered 177 w ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2017Plants & Animals
The giant panda was once considered an endangered animal species by the International Union for the Conservation of Natu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 22, 2017Plants & Animals
Sleep is such an essential thing that you and I can’t live without it, and many other animal species are the same ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 21, 2017Plants & Animals
Some of the best-known animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List are sea tur ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 20, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
By studying the genetics behind butterfly wing patterns, researchers understand how a single gene can create limitless p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 20, 2017Plants & Animals
Have you ever noticed how many elderly folks tend to need hearing aids or ask you to speak louder so they can hear you? ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 19, 2017Plants & Animals
Plants are some of the most resilient life forms on Earth, and Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor Ying Fan Reinf ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 19, 2017Microbiology
Bacteria in tumors make cancer resistant to chemotherapy. Wait, what? That’s right. According to Ravid Straussman ...Written By: Kerry EvansSEP 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
If you were to be walking along the shore of one of the islands in the Bering Sea within the last several weeks, you wou ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 15, 2017Microbiology
Segmented filamentous bacteria (SFBs) are exactly what they sound like - a group of bacteria defined by their morphology ...Written By: Kerry EvansSEP 15, 2017Microbiology
A new type of enzyme has been discovered in hundreds of bacterial species, and researchers say it helps reveal how bacte ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 15, 2017Videos
While they look fierce and are deadly, scorpions actually can play a role in fighting cancer. Research is ongoing into h ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 15, 2017Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially announced this week that the snow leopard ( ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2017Plants & Animals
The night parrot is an elusive nocturnal bird that’s native to select parts of Australia. While it has been spotte ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2017Plants & Animals
Giant panda lovers have a reason to feel a little melancholy this week, as the world’s oldest captive giant panda ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2017Microbiology
Our bodies have an internal clock, the circadian rhythm, and it appears that some pathogens behave differently depending ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 13, 2017Plants & Animals
Squirrels are known for their love of nuts; they pick up all different kinds from the ground and then cache them away fo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 13, 2017Chemistry & Physics
The low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma jet in action. Credit: Amanda Lietz Plasma, the fourth state of matter, ...Written By: Daniel DuanSEP 13, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
While the changes were small, investigators believe they have found evidence that humans are still undergoing evolutiona ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 12, 2017Earth & The Environment
A new study published in the journal Elementa has taken a look at the seasonality of sea surface temperature trends alon ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 28, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 27, 2017
Infographics
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) each keep track of the c
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 27, 2017
Videos
Farming is a repetitive process of plowing land, placing seeds, watering the seeds, fertilizing the planted seeds, and h
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 27, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Okay, so let’s admit it: we know very little about the depths of our oceans. But staring straight into the face of
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 26, 2017
Plants & Animals
Animal lovers won’t like hearing one bit og this, but Japan formally announced this week that it slaughtered 177 w
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2017
Plants & Animals
The giant panda was once considered an endangered animal species by the International Union for the Conservation of Natu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 22, 2017
Plants & Animals
Sleep is such an essential thing that you and I can’t live without it, and many other animal species are the same
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 21, 2017
Plants & Animals
Some of the best-known animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List are sea tur
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
By studying the genetics behind butterfly wing patterns, researchers understand how a single gene can create limitless p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 20, 2017
Plants & Animals
Have you ever noticed how many elderly folks tend to need hearing aids or ask you to speak louder so they can hear you?
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
Plants are some of the most resilient life forms on Earth, and Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor Ying Fan Reinf
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2017
Microbiology
Bacteria in tumors make cancer resistant to chemotherapy. Wait, what? That’s right. According to Ravid Straussman
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
If you were to be walking along the shore of one of the islands in the Bering Sea within the last several weeks, you wou
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 15, 2017
Microbiology
Segmented filamentous bacteria (SFBs) are exactly what they sound like - a group of bacteria defined by their morphology
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 15, 2017
Microbiology
A new type of enzyme has been discovered in hundreds of bacterial species, and researchers say it helps reveal how bacte
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 15, 2017
Videos
While they look fierce and are deadly, scorpions actually can play a role in fighting cancer. Research is ongoing into h
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 15, 2017
Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially announced this week that the snow leopard (
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
The night parrot is an elusive nocturnal bird that’s native to select parts of Australia. While it has been spotte
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
Giant panda lovers have a reason to feel a little melancholy this week, as the world’s oldest captive giant panda
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2017
Microbiology
Our bodies have an internal clock, the circadian rhythm, and it appears that some pathogens behave differently depending
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 13, 2017
Plants & Animals
Squirrels are known for their love of nuts; they pick up all different kinds from the ground and then cache them away fo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 13, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
The low-temperature atmospheric pressure plasma jet in action. Credit: Amanda Lietz Plasma, the fourth state of matter,
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 13, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
While the changes were small, investigators believe they have found evidence that humans are still undergoing evolutiona
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 12, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A new study published in the journal Elementa has taken a look at the seasonality of sea surface temperature trends alon
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan