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Global Warming has been around for a while and has been one of the most talked about things in science today. That is why scientists began studying the polar regions in fear that the polar ice caps would melt and not only raise water levels here, but it would also eliminate the animals which call [...]

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In the world today, influenza viruses play an important part of our world today; this is because many people are infected, and many more are in danger of catching this diseases (i.e. H1N1). The concern today is that these diseases seem to becoming more resistant to treatment methods. (There are so far two FDA approved methods to [...]

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The cures for cancer have always been dangerous, if not helpful at all. When chemotherapeutic drugs are given to a patient, they often cause harmful side effects such as anemia, hair loss, vomiting, nausea, and more. This is because the drugs given that attack cancer cells also attack healthy cells.  Chemotherapeutic drugs are sometimes encased [...]

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According to ScienceDaily, our planet is under our sixth mass extinction. “We have only documented and described an estimated 10 percent of the species on Earth, and it’s hard to save a species when you don’t know that it exists.” Since January of this year, scientists and researcher’s have found 113 new species including 83 [...]

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Scientists from the Carol Yu Centre for Infection at the University of Hong Kong have concluded that Escherichia coli bacteria is the cause of urinary tract infections (UTI’s) and bacteria in faecal samples from humans and food-producing animals. An identical gene for antibiotic resistance was found in all the samples in similar proportions and locations, [...]

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Researchers study how boa constrictors are capable of climbing vertical objects,  such as branches.  While climbing, snakes have problems with keeping a good grip, climbing on a narrow surface that deforms, and lifting its own body weight.  Snakes overcome these difficulties because climbing in trees is a necessity to their survival.  The researchers found that [...]

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The Bengal cats are indeed becoming microscopic within less then a few months. These poor majestic creatures are becoming weaker and weaker. This truly is a tragedy. What could possibly cause such a wretched fate to come upon these poor and innocent creatures of the wild you ask? Well, Researcher Sanyal  believes that the cause of this sheer madness [...]

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Julie Desjardins, a postdoctoral biologist researcher at the University of Standford, Professor Russ Fernald, and a recently graduate with Honors in Biology, Jill Klausner, conducted an experiment on female African cichlid fish, and their brain activity. According to their research, when a female African cichlid witnesses her male mating partner lose a fight, signals in their brain indicate [...]

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