Equine Color Genetics: The Genetics of Horse Colors
Understanding how equine color genetics work has helped horse breeders breed horses with specific colors and patterns. Various horse colors result …
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Facts on the Next Planetary Alignment in 2012
News of the next planet alignment seems to occur every few years. Each event comes with a slew of apocalyptic warnings from doomsayers, selling the …
Continue ReadingMilitary Space Stations - The Russian Almaz and The US MOL
Space stations before Skylab and MIR? The USSR’s Almaz space station and the United States’ Manned Orbiting Laboratory were two Cold …
Continue ReadingPlant Genetics - Genetic Engineering of Agrobacterium to Improve Plant Species
Agrobacterium is commonly found in the soil and is known to cause crown gall tumors in plants. These bacteria are also used in plant genetic …
Continue ReadingShoemaker-Levy 9 Comet & Jupiter Collision: Effect on Solar System
While we haven’t had a good impact here on Earth in a good long while, they’re fairly commonplace on the larger planets—especially the …
Continue ReadingSuborbital Transport – Will You See It In Your Lifetime?
Space is the ultimate frontier. Already astronauts have safely conducted manned flights to the moon and lived in space stations. Is space tourism for …
Continue ReadingThe Patient's Guide to Narcotic Pain Killer Medications
This article will discuss narcotic pain medications and will provide important information that all patients should know.
Continue ReadingThe Vision For Space Exploration: Lunar Bases, Manned Missions to Mars, and More
The 2004 Vision for Space Exploration promises to push space exploration in a way that it has not seen since the Kennedy years, from lunar bases to …
Continue ReadingWhat is Canine Lupus? The Problem of Lupus in Dogs
Canine Lupus is an autoimmune disease affecting dogs where the immune system attacks the body. Read on to find out about the two types of canine lupus …
Continue ReadingWhat is Progeria? A Look at the Genetics of Progeria Disease
Progeria is a rare genetic disorder where the affected individual appears to age rapidly. It is estimated that one in four million children are …
Continue ReadingWhat is Time? Part 2
Continuing and diverging from what was mentioned in Part 1 into more of the specific uses and intricacies of time, we here survey notions such as …
Continue ReadingA Profile of John Maynard Smith: Game Theory and the Evolution of Sex
This article gives a brief overview of the famous British theorist and evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith, who applied mathematics to biology …
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