New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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Science has a nasty Photoshopping problem
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Bucking convention to track the upside of invasive species
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The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology
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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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The world’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp, visible to the naked eye
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Why do we see color?
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A frog so small, it could not 'frog'
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Over twenty-five years ago Kári Stefánsson began examining the DNA of Iceland's inhabitants in search of the genetic causes of illness
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Death could be reversible, as scientists bring dead eyes back to life
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Powerful ‘machine scientists’ distill the laws of physics from raw data
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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What's next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution
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Cody's algae panel
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New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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This animal’s behavior is mechanically programmed
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Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time
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Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported
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First pig-human transplant: A recap
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Energy, and how to get it - All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view
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Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis
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The phylogenomics of evolving virus virulence
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The dolphin clitoris is full of surprises, scientists discover
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mRNA vaccine technology has helped repair broken hearts in mice
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You have no idea how hard it is to get a hamster drunk
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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What is the RNA world hypothesis?
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Any good resources on Morphogenesis and related areas?
I recently began thinking about how plants get their shape and discovered "morphogenesis" after some inept googling. It seems like a fascinating subject so I'd like to learn a bit more. I have...
I recently began thinking about how plants get their shape and discovered "morphogenesis" after some inept googling. It seems like a fascinating subject so I'd like to learn a bit more. I have some A-level university courses in chemistry and microbiology, but never dug too deep. So I am looking for suggestions on what to read up on in order to gain some understanding of how plants and other organisms get their shape. The ultimate goal is of course to plant my own house.
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Why insects are more sensitive than they seem
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Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
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"The project goal is to connect a worldwide array of sensors that monitor the sparsely observed deep ocean environment, ocean climate, and sea level rise."
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Scientists used a tiny brain implant to help a blind teacher see letters again
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Excerpts from the Atlas of Poetic Botany
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In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human
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The World of Serina | Speculative Biology | Part I
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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Australian musk ducks have the ability to call you a ‘bloody fool,’ research finds
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RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice
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Why are scorpions fluorescent?
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This virus shouldn't exist (but it does)
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Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them
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Why we're blind to the color blue
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Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes
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Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests
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The longest-running evolution experiment
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AlphaFold DB provides open access to protein structure predictions for the human proteome and twenty other key organisms to accelerate scientific research
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Meth addiction in fish poses threat to ecosystem balance, study says
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Spiders are eating snakes all over the world, and yeah, it's gruesome
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I touched the world's most painful plant - Gympie gympie (the suicide plant)
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