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No need to grab a textbook, here is a quick biology lesson on cells, what they are and what they are made of. What is the smallest unit of life? A cell is the smallest unit of life.
Opinion Biology’s lesson: Life does not begin at conception | READER COMMENTARY A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman at a hospital in Chicago.
Two Harvard University researchers who applied biological science to the study of labor unions paint a bleak picture of the future of unions. In “A Biological Model of Unions,” by Micha… ...
Teachers say that talking about COVID-19 in science class can provide real-world examples of biological processes, start conversations about information literacy, and give students a space to ...
Debby Heerkens, a gym and biology teacher at Groene Hart Rijnwoude school, in the small town of Hazerswoude Dorp, Netherlands, wanted to try a creative approach to teach a lesson about the human body.
Biology's Lessons for Business Martin K. Reeves and Simon Levin talk about their Scientific American essay "Building a Resilient Business Inspired by Biology." ...
The Polymerase Chain Reaction was developed in 1983, and since that time it's become one of the most commonly-used techniques in labs across the world. The ability to amplify one region of DNA using ...
An asphalt playground in Nashua turns into a biology lab when Catie Deiley arrives to lead a troop of Girl Scouts through science “experiments.” ...
Troy writes that he got his tattoo “as a post-doctoral fellow studying protein folding. The tattoo is sort of a telescoping view of the contents in a cell (many contents omitted, obviously ...
Three separate recent studies show that using dance in science lessons has a positive effect on student engagement and socialization. But are they learning science – and does it matter?