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Blog / Deep Sea Invisibility

October 3, 2022 / Syed Masood /

Looking into the mechanism and the evolutionary benefits of deep-sea fish evolving ultra-black skin

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Blog / Where is the line between life and non-life?

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 / Rachel Cherney /

What classifies an organism as living? New classes of viruses may blur the line between what is living and what is not.

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Blog / Why microbes are so good at evolving

February 17, 2020February 17, 2020 / Connor LaMontagne /

How have creatures as simple as microbes managed to colonize every corner of the world, resist our weapons against them, and eat electricity? Turns out, they’re ridiculously good at evolution.

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Blog / What Determines Our Complexity?

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 / Rachel Cherney / 1

What makes humans more complex than plants or bacteria? Surprisingly, it’s not how much DNA we have, but rather how much of our DNA doesn’t encode for protein – known as the non-coding genome.

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Blog / Nobel in Chemistry for an Evolutionary Revolution

November 13, 2018November 24, 2018 / Syed Masood /

Evolution, the process of gradual changes to genetic information in each generation over millions of years, proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century is being revolutionized by modern science.…

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Blog / A World Without Cheese

October 10, 2018October 23, 2018 / Breanna Turman /

Imagine a world without pizza, nachos, cheeseburgers, mozzarella sticks, macaroni and cheese; a world without cheese. Living in a world with thousands of cheeses from many countries and cultures, it…

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Blog / Are female túngara frogs better at learning than males because of how they breed?

August 12, 2018October 10, 2018 / Robert Ventura /

                  As Charles Darwin was the first to document, the behavior, physical features and sexual activities of species. These observations can frequently…

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