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Showing posts with label What Is. Show all posts
Thursday, January 1, 2026

What Is: Psychedelic Renaissance

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The current "Psychedelic Renaissance" is not a new discovery but a recovery of lost knowledge. Image Credit: Scientific Frontline ...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

What Is: Biological Plasticity

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline The Paradigm of the Reactive Genome  The history of biological thought has long been dominated by a tensi...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

What Is: The Phanerozoic Eon

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Defining the Eon of Complex Life Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated The Phanerozoic Eon constitutes the current and most biol...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

What Is: Gravitational Microlensing

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Scientific Frontline / Stock image The universe, in its vastness, is largely composed of matter that does not shine. For centuries, the disc...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

What Is: Dementia

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Illustration Credit: Scientific Frontline The End of the Passive Era The year 2025 marks a definitive inflection point in the history of neu...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

What Is: An Ecosystem

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The Holocoenotic Nature of the Biosphere Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock image The Genesis of a Paradigm   The concept of the eco...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

What Is: Mitochondrion

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Evolutionary Singularities and the Eukaryotic Dawn The mitochondrion represents a biological singularity, a discrete evolutionary event that...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

What Is: Narcissism

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated The term "narcissism" is one of the most frequently deployed yet widely misunder...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

What Is: Hormones

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The "Chemical Messenger" The Endocrine System and Chemical Communication Image Credit: Scientific Frontline The Silent Orchestrato...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

What Is: The Human Microbiome

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The Human Microbiome Image Credit: Scientific Frontline stock image The Invisible Organ The human body is not a sterile, solitary entity. It...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

What Is: A Greenhouse Gas

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Image Credit: Skeptical Science ( CC BY 4.0 ) A greenhouse gas (GHG) is a constituent of the atmosphere that absorbs and emits longwave radi...
Friday, October 17, 2025

What Is: Extinction Level Events

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A Chronicle of Earth's Biotic Crises and an Assessment of Future Threats Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Defining Biotic Catastrophe ...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

What Is: El Niño, La Niña, and a Climate in Flux

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / NOAA The Planet's Most Powerful Climate Cycle In 1997, a climatic event of unprecedented scale bega...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

What Is: Microplastics

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Microplastic Credit: Scientific Frontline The Invisible Tide of Plastic The modern era has been defined, in part, by the versatility and ubi...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

What Is: Schizophrenia

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  Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Beyond the Misconceptions Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions. It i...