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Why do you get sick in winter? Blame your nose
To find out exactly what caused this resistance to the virus, the scientists then incubated bags containing the virus and…
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Many metaphors of metamorphosis
As far as metaphors for change go, this is a powerful one. However, when we think about the future and…
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The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptile Boneyard
Berlin, Nevada, is A treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from the now abandoned gold and silver mines,…
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Your brain uses math to control quick movements
a mouse is running on a treadmill embedded in a virtual reality corridor. In its mind, it found itself gliding…
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Scientists reconsider why zebra stripes mysteriously repel flies
For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD student at Princeton, and her team wanted to test the width of…
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The era of fast, cheap gene sequencing has arrived
Comparing those genomes with those of people without schizophrenia has allowed investigators to discovery of many genes have a profound…
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To understand brain disorders, consider astrocytes
This happens slowly. “We spent a lot of time, probably in the first few years, just doing general immunology and…
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Epigenetic ‘clock’ predicts true biological age of animals
A new instrument by Belsky and his colleagues, introduced in 2020 and updated earlier this year, acts like an old…
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If humanity went extinct, would a similar species evolve?
The strong rise of new technology means that humanity has to face the danger of its own extinction. For example,…
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A long-lost rare crayfish comes back to life in an Alabama cave
Historically, Shelta Cave was one of the most diverse cave systems in the eastern United States. Long before Niemiller and…
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