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What Is an Internist Specialist? An internist is a doctor of internal medicine. Sometimes they're called internal medicine physicians. They are not interns. These doctors specialize in the ...
perkinsii), an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...
Credit: Mars 160 Crew/The Mars Society Research at Mars analog sites in Utah and Nunavut focuses on lichen diversity, helping to predict lichen survival on Mars and aiding our understanding of these ...
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Summary. There’s plenty to be anxious about right now, including violent global conflicts, inequality and financial concerns, the rise of AI, and a U.S. presidential election. But many of us ...
If scientists can figure out how to genetically engineer it, this single-celled organism’s natural quirks could become supercharged into a low-waste carbon capture system. Reader support makes ...
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The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around ...
By sequencing hundreds of samples from the tree, researchers confirmed that Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, verifying previous suggestions that it is among the oldest organisms on Earth.
Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute have developed a model to calculate how quickly or slowly an organism should ideally learn in its surroundings. An organism's ideal ...