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Mammal Mania: Chiroptera Accuracy Happy Hours

Bats are so cool (and abundant) that they get their own animal order – Chiroptera! Bats are the only mammals capable of …

Perhaps you enjoyed Eyewire’s previous competition Reptile Pile, an ode to all creatures scaly and ectothermic. But now it’s time to bring …

Thanks for joining Team Gene and getting deep into the deoxyribonucleic acid with us! We can tell you climbed to the top rung …

Chromosomes are long, threadlike structures made of a single molecule of DNA that contains all or part of an organism’s genetic material. …

Epigenetics is a field of study focused on alterations in gene expression that do not involve changes on the underlying DNA sequence. …

Nucleotides are the basic units of nucleic acids. They are monomeric units – molecules that react together with other monomeric molecules to …

Gregor Mendel certainly deserved his title as the “father of modern genetics” for his botany studies of inherited traits. But his discoveries …

Your genes make you you! Today we are all familiar with DNA, or Deoxyribonucleic acid, a polymer that carries the genetic instructions for …

Woohoo! Although the final bell has sounded, the memory of Eyewire’s Chemical Curiosities will live on through the achievements you earned today, …

How’s that for our first marathon of the year? This 761-cube marathon cell finished in 23 hours 29 minutes, along with 1 …

Wow! What a wild chemical reaction. Unlike most times when acids and bases meet, however, Eyewire hasn’t neutralized, but rather come out …

As we hinted in our VS post’s information about the pH scale, electromagnetism has a role to play in chemistry as much …