New study may dramatically shift our understanding of the complex dance of microbes and minerals that takes place in aquifers deep underground.
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Jeanette Yen, professor in the School of Biology, and a team of scientists spend the summer in Antarctica studying how plankton may be a canary in the coal mine of climate change.
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Despite a wide range of bladder sizes, all animals more than 6 pounds urinate in the same time span.
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To test whether the presence of RNA in DNA duplexes could alter the elasticity and structure of DNA.