New formula more accurately converts your dog's age into human years
Researchers at University of California San Diego created a formula that more accurately compares the ages of humans and dogs.
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Joseph Shavit
- Jan 17
Researchers discover how cells communicate and form tissues and organs
Building tissues and organs is one of the most complex and important tasks that cells must accomplish during embryogenesis.
Joseph Shavit
- Jan 13
Groundbreaking robotic microsurgeon reveals how embryos grow
Understanding the biology behind an embryo’s development is crucial not only from a basic science perspective, but also from a medical one.
Joseph Shavit
- Jan 11
Scientists finally answer the fundamental question of how life on Earth began
The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.
Joseph Shavit
- Dec 30, 2022
These seven questions can define how wise you are
Researchers report that an abbreviated, seven-item scale can help determine with high validity a person’s level of wisdom,
Joseph Shavit
- Dec 8, 2022
Groundbreaking scientific discovery rewrites the history of life on Earth
Diverse microbial life existed on Earth
3.75 billion years ago, suggests a new study challenging the current view of when life began.
Joseph Shavit
- Dec 1, 2022
All life in our solar system may have begun on Mars
When Mars was a young planet, it was bombarded by ice asteroids delivering water and organic molecules necessary for life to emerge.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 30, 2022
Seven insightful questions can determine how wise you are
Researchers have found that an abbreviated, seven-item scale can help determine with high validity a person’s level of wisdom.
Joseph Shavit
- Nov 11, 2022
Researchers solve the mystery of how all life on Earth began
Chemical evolution was first proposed in the 1920s as the idea that life first originated with the formation of macromolecules.
Joshua Shavit
- Nov 5, 2022
Why do fish look down when they swim? Mystery finally solved
Just as you might look down at the sidewalk as you walk, fish look downward when they swim, a new study has confirmed. The question is why?
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 27, 2022
Fossil discovery rewrites the history of life on Earth, researchers find
Diverse microbial life existed on Earth at least 3.75 billion years ago, suggests a new study challenging the view of when life began.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 14, 2022
Paleontologists finally solve 100 year old T. rex mystery
For over two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian has been frequently asked one question by undergraduates that stuck with him.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 10, 2022
Researchers discover that genetic mutations in humans aren't always random
A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes.
Joseph Shavit
- Oct 2, 2022
Ancient 'sharks' appeared much earlier than previously thought
The first appearance of shark-like ‘jawed fish’ may have happened some 15 million years earlier than previously thought.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 13, 2022
Harvard study identifies why humans walk upright
If evolutionary biologists were to rank the body parts that make us quintessentially human, the pelvis would place close to the top.
Joseph Shavit
- Sep 11, 2022
Scientists finally answer the fundamental question of how life on Earth began
The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet,
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 23, 2022
Scientists unravel the mystery of the arrow of time
Study has made progress in identifying how particles and cells give rise to large-scale dynamics that we experience as the passage of time.
Joseph Shavit
- Aug 6, 2022
Human brains change when we are awake after midnight, researchers find
After midnight for most people —there are neurophysiological changes in the brain that alter the way we interact with the world.
Joshua Shavit
- Aug 4, 2022
Mammals were not the first creatures on Earth to be warm-blooded
Karoo fossils provide “smoking gun” on clues to when warm-bloodedness evolved in pre-mammalian ancestors according to researchers.
Joseph Shavit
- Jul 29, 2022
The surprising reason why deep-sea corals glow in the dark
For centuries, nature lovers and scientists have been fascinated by the fact that creatures in the sea are able to glow in the dark.
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