A Moment of Science
Many indigenous people live in areas of low oxygen concentration with few adverse effects. The big question is, how do they survive?
Why are diseases like cancer so common in humans but so rare in chimps?
Modern preventive medicine has saved millions of lives. You'll be surprised to hear that Neanderthals may have helped ancient humans prevent disease with genes.
Scientific research is awesome when chocolate is involved! Learn what scientists are doing to understand the inner workings of the Theobroma cacao tree.
If you could unravel DNA from a single cell, it would be about six feet long! So how exactly does it fit inside the nucleus? Find out on this Moment of Science.
Chloroplasts should not be able to work once they are removed from algal cells because those cells contain proteins that control their operation.
For many scientists, a species’ success is measured by sheer numbers. In that case, the most successful species known to man is a type of bacterium known as S-A-R-11, or SAR-11 for short. Scientists estimate that there are two-hundred and forty times a billion billion billion SAR11 cells floating around in the oceans. Now that [...]
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