Biologists around the world routinely perform gene expression analysis to better understand living systems. Gene expression analysis examines the types and amounts of molecules produced by genes in living cells, telling us ...
Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2016
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Fossil hunters now have a mobile app to help them identify specimens in the field.
Archaeology
Mar 23, 2016
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Incomplete information is leaving many endangered species off conservation priorities.
Ecology
Feb 2, 2016
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In the 1870s, the world's last truly wild horses, known as Przewalski's horses, lived in the Asian steppes of Mongolia and China. But by the 1960s, those wild horses were no longer free. Only one captive population remained, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2015
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The careful examination of fossil fragments from Panama has led Smithsonian scientists and colleagues to the discovery of a new genus and species of river dolphin that has been long extinct. The team named it Isthminia panamensis. ...
Archaeology
Sep 1, 2015
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A team from Wits University's Evolutionary Studies Institute has discovered a fossil monkey specimen representing the earliest baboon ever found.
Archaeology
Aug 19, 2015
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Plants are a ubiquitous and essential part of our lives. Estimates suggest there are hundreds of thousands of plant species known to science. How many species are there, really? How are they related? How many are threatened ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 16, 2015
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Who doesn't love butterflies? While most people won't think twice about destroying a wasp nest on the side of the house, spraying a swarm of ants in the driveway, or zapping pesky flies at an outdoor barbecue, few would intentionally ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2015
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The teeming plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the U.S. shutter their long-standing herbaria.
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2015
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A team of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has identified the first fossil specimens of a major group of killifishes that is widely distributed in freshwater habitats today. The 6-million-year-old material ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 30, 2015
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