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Nov 8, 2025

Why Oxygen Doesn’t Mark the Dawn of Complex Life

It was the beginning of a major new problem

Why Oxygen Doesn’t Mark the Dawn of Complex Life

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The Environment

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Jul 17, 2025

Ocean darkening is causing marine habitats to shrink

90% of marine life lives where the light reaches, so what happens to life when the light fades?

Ocean darkening is causing marine habitats to shrink

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ILLUMINATION

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May 28, 2025

When and where did the first humans meet ‘full circle’ around the world?

Answers have been found within the ivory teeth of ancient walrus DNA

When and where did the first humans meet ‘full circle’ around the world?

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May 23, 2025

What Are Antioxidants?

Ask Evie! Short Explainers #2

What Are Antioxidants?

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Write Under the Moon

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Mar 19, 2025

An Ode to Oxygen

The untold story

An Ode to Oxygen

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Science Spectrum

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Mar 14, 2025

What Do We Share With Earth’s Ancient Animals?

Around 70% of our genes are the same as a sea sponge

What Do We Share With Earth’s Ancient Animals?

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Curie & Co.

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Mar 1, 2025

Oxygen’s Radical Revolution

How life adapted and flourished through a metabolic switch

Oxygen’s Radical Revolution

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Sharing Science

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Jan 28, 2025

Mysteries of the Deep Sea Captured by the Mouth of a Sponge

Is there anything that passes a sea sponge by?

Mysteries of the Deep Sea Captured by the Mouth of a Sponge

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Dec 15, 2024

What are free radicals?

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What are free radicals?

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Dec 11, 2024

Conga Like a Lobster!

Travelling to escape the weather never looked so good

Conga Like a Lobster!

Olivia Hewitt, PhD

Olivia Hewitt, PhD

Biologist and creative thinker - Love to ponder & connect the dots on the biology & evolution in everyday life | curlews-eye.webflow.io

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