Cultivating trouble
Only 39 percent of the nearly 10,000 North American plant species threatened with extinction are being maintained in collections, according to the first comprehensive listing of the threatened plant...
View ArticleFirst lizard genome sequenced
The green anole lizard is an agile and active creature, and so are elements of its genome. This genomic agility and other new clues have emerged from the full sequencing of the lizard’s genome and may...
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Pecking order
It has long been known that diversity of form and function in birds’ specialized beaks is abundant. Charles Darwin famously studied the finches on the Galapagos Islands, tying the morphology (shape) of...
View ArticleSweeping for Thompson Island Hoppers
Education meets hands-on science as roughly 100 Harvard undergraduates fan out from beach to beach collecting insects for a new database of Harbor Island insect life.
View ArticleSweeping for Thompson Island Hoppers
Education meets hands-on science as roughly 100 Harvard undergraduates fan out from beach to beach collecting insects for a new database of Harbor Island insect life.
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Cultivating trouble
Only 39 percent of the nearly 10,000 North American plant species threatened with extinction are being maintained in collections, according to the first comprehensive listing of the threatened plant...
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First lizard genome sequenced
The green anole lizard is an agile and active creature, and so are elements of its genome. This genomic agility and other new clues have emerged from the full sequencing of the lizard’s genome and may...
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Pecking order
It has long been known that diversity of form and function in birds’ specialized beaks is abundant. Charles Darwin famously studied the finches on the Galapagos Islands, tying the morphology (shape)...
View ArticleHarvard researcher connects the dots in fin-to-limb evolution
About 400 million years ago, vertebrates first began to crawl from the primordial seas onto land. Last week, thanks to a cutting-edge mathematical-analysis technique, a global research team uncovered...
View ArticleHarvard grad follows a passion for global health
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Since childhood, Cynthia Luo knew she wanted to be a physician. In high school, she discovered a passion for cancer...
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Theory that ridged skin helps dolphins debunked
A dolphin is obviously not a golf ball. However, many scientists believed that the way one slips through the water and the other through the air owed to the same cause: similarities in surface texture...
View ArticleMammalian vertebral columns may reflect pace of evolution
How did simple, single-celled microorganisms become complex schools of fish and Brazilian monkeys — and us? It’s widely believed that the process of evolution always took place over eons, with random...
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Climate change drove reptile evolution
Just over 250 million years ago, during the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a coming-out party. Their numbers and rates of diversity surged, leading to...
View ArticleLooking to retain most potent regenerative stem cells
New research offers insights that someday may help scientists create the kind of stem cells capable of reversing all manner of human ills, the same powerful structures that generate all the different...
View ArticleNew study offers clues to how shifting climate may change ocean ecosystems
Researchers know that marine organisms are shifting geographically toward the Earth’s poles in response to climate change. However, predicting the extent to which the species will move as ocean...
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500-million-year-old tunicate fossil reveals new secrets
Karma Nanglu says his favorite animal is whichever one he’s working on. But his latest subject may hold first-place status for a while: a 500-million-year-old fossil from the tunicates, a wonderfully...
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