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Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Take a look around the room you’re in and see if you can find any items made of wood; there
Every society needs a group of superheroes. And as a society of proteins, organic molecules, and nucleic acids, cells are no different. To defend against
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From the bright Red-Necked Tanager to the deep Blue Crowned Pigeon, over ten-thousand species of birds share the planet with us. Throughout history, their colorful
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Image courtesy of Flickr. Seafood is tasty, but we are often hesitant to consume it because of the ocean’s high mercury concentration. Increased human activities
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Researchers Sarah Slavoff and Zhenkun Na of Yale’s Department of Chemistry are standing up for the little guy. More than a hundred years in the
The fact that the Earth rotates around its axis once every 86,400 seconds seems like a faraway explanation for the passage of time, but what
Over the past year and a half, our hospitals, overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients desperate for oxygen, have been debilitated by staff and resource shortages. While
We all know how the story goes. A mysterious spaceship is detected in the atmosphere. Humans try to communicate with the aliens on it. Aliens