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53A celebration of Charles Darwin's 200 years
A celebration of the life of one of the greatest scientists of all time
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45The Big Cat
Siberian tigers are the largest cats in the world. They live primarily in eastern Russia's birch forests, though some exist in China and North Korea. There are an estimated 400 to 500 siberian tigers living...
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70Humans are More Like Chimps Than a Mouse is to a Rat
In the evolutionary tree of life, our closest non-human relatives are the chimpanzees -- the common chimpanzee and bonobo in particular.Evolutionary charts linked here and here shows that besides chimpanzee,...
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732009 Salmon returns
2009 was dominated by news headlines and articles describing a disastrous collapse of salmon returns and stocks in BC. As usual, all sorts of reasons were given or recycled, from excessively warm water to...
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65Homeostasis
I recently got an A in my GCSE science and I would like to share with you my favourtie topic. It is called Homeostasis. This means maintaining a constant internal environment. It amazes me, mostly because...
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63Primordial Soup
“Primordial Soup” was an experiment performed by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey back in 1953. This experiment consisted of adding water, a couple of gases that resemble the atmosphere of Jupiter, and...
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64Obesity Hypothesis
In recent years, obesity has come to be an increasingly massive problem. In the past twenty years alone the average BMI for an American has doubled. But what caused this appalling increase in obesity. The...
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64Chemiosmosis and the Krebs Cycle
Chemiosmosis is the movement of protons across a permeable membrane. This process occurs through the use of energy given off by removing electrons off of food molecules. Chemiosmosis helped to define how...
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60Genes and Evolution
All cells, including bacterial calls, are under consistent competition for nutrients and energy resources. Bacteria that are best fit to survive in intensely aggressive conditions usually outlast cells that...
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64The beneficial role of termites in ecosystems
Although not many of us have seen termites, let alone know what they look like, termites are very important to life on earth. They are found most abundantly in forests, specifically tropical forests, and...
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