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a simple method to combat antibiotic resistance? proper hand washing
Can washing your hands help stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance? Mathematically, it’s possible.
Antibiotics save lives by killing bacteria that cause infections. But antibiotics...
The likelihood of plant and animal species surviving in cities increases with their ability to adapt.
It’s five o'clock on a summer morning in Winnipeg. Our research team is unloading a series of small traps from the trunk of our...
Before the emergence of living cells, did viruses exist on Earth? explains a microbiologist
How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it still does.
Fossils provide very important evidence about the evolution of...
Fossil research advances our understanding of how “flying dinosaurs” flew.
If you think of flying dinosaurs, you probably picture an animal with long, leathery wings, sharp claws and a big beak. The animal you...
We dominate northern climates despite the fact that the majority of humans have not evolved to withstand the cold.
Humans are a tropical species. We have lived in warm climates for most of our evolutionary history, which might explain why so many of...
