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Study blames global warming for shrinking species

Many of Earth's species appear to be shrinking in size, a new study reports, and its authors think that's probably due to global warming.

 

Evolution Right Under Our Noses

A small but growing number of field biologists study urban evolution — the biological changes that cities bring to the wildlife that inhabits them.

 

E. coli outbreak bug genes look super aggressive

Biologists are only now getting a better look at Mother Nature's latest bit of busywork.

 

6 Things Your Body Does Every Day That Science Can't Explain

The human race has scaled the tallest mountains, charted the deepest oceans and played a quick front nine on the freaking moon, but there's one frontier that still largely mystifies us: our own bodies. There are everyday phenomenons you'd think must have been explained ages ago, but in reality asking these simple questions of a scientist will net you at best a shrug, and at worst some bullshit he just made up off the top of his head.

 

We Are Becoming A New Species, We Are Becoming Homo Evolutis

At TED 2009, Juan Enriquez talked about the new human species emerging before our eyes. Thanks to an array of biological advances and our growing aptitude in robotics, we now find ourselves in the early days of the deliberate creation of what he called a new species.

 

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