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If Dark Waters Weren’t Scary Enough – The Diving Bell Spider Can Live There Too
The Diving Bell Spider (Wikipedia) The process of natural selection is an incredible tool of evolution. Natural selection states that desirable traits within a population will, through reproduction...
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Our Great Grandmothers and Great Grandfathers Were… Apes?
The Similarities Between Apes and Humans The idea that humans descended from the great apes is a controversial idea, and I’d like to write a little bit about why it shouldn’t be. It’s hard to accept...
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Connecting Government and Biology
In Biology, there are four main principles that most scientists understand on a fundamental level. Most of these ideas broadly describe the processes by which life has made its presence on Earth, and...
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Biology’s Molecular Machines (TED)
The scale at which our cells operate has been hidden for the majority of human history. Drew Barry, a bio-medical animator now featured in museums across the world, decided to change this by...
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The Fuel of the Future: Commercialized Algae Oil
Bio-fuels like ethanol were a valiant attempt at using renewable resources, but it turns out to cause more problems that it fixes. A new fuel, algae bio-fuel, has stormed onto the scene and is giving...
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How Did Birds Get Their Feathers?
We see birds flying gracefully through the skies everyday, but rarely do we question how their organs of flight evolved. That’s right- we’re talking about feathers. How could the structure of a...
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If We Can Bring the Mammoth Back, What Can’t Genetics Resurrect?
We all understand how the rebirth of extinct species works. Humans find as much tissue from fossils as they can, construct the closest molecular model to organism’s original DNA, and insert that...
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