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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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The marine biologist looked back to a 2004 incident in Massachusetts, when water jets were used to drive a great white shark away from a shallow pond.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Lucky for skeptics, Nadira Goffe interviewed a whale biologist about how realistic the film is.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

"These findings provide the first evidence that psilocybin can selectively reduce escalated aggression in a vertebrate model without suppressing social interaction," added senior author Dr. Suzie Currie, a biologist at The University of British Columbia.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The emergence of myelin is given particular emphasis, being compared by cell biologist Robin Franklin to the “invention of microprocessors in computing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The American biologist Roger Payne has calculated that using the deep ocean sound channel, two whales could communicate with each other at twenty Hertz essentially anywhere in the world.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

To establish that BFT and claudin-4 truly bind to each other, the Johns Hopkins researchers collaborated with structural biologists F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth and Ulrich Eckhard at the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Bloomer contacted biologists and museum curators across the country, asking them to examine their collections for unusually large specimens.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Wu worked with biologists and used dim red light and a customised fisheye lens to minimise disturbance.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

But California’s biggest river is now so warm that biologists expect a significant number of the eggs won’t hatch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Even biologists choose to think this about themselves, despite the evidences of the absolute inevitability of death that surround their professional lives.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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