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Through a new review article published in Nature, the researchers underscore how long-term studies have captured evolution's most elusive processes, including the real-time formation of new ...

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There are small petri dishes, there are large petri dishes, and then there is MEGA, an enormous, 2-foot-by-4-foot slab of black agar infused with a gradient of antibacterial drugs. Researchers built ...