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64 votes
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Rats have an imagination, new research finds
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Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
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Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find
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Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans
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What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
36 votes -
Montana man, 80, pleads guilty to creating giant mutant hybrid bighorns
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Scientists discover second deep-sea octopus nursery off of Costa Rica
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New study - scent of tears from female humans reduces revenge seeking and aggression in males, similar to patterns observed in other mammals
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‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
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An invasive fish with teeth, that can breathe air, live up to three days outside of water, move short distances on land, and grow three feet long has been found in Louisiana
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Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
29 votes -
Their bionic eyes are now obsolete and unsupported
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Mammals are becoming more nocturnal to avoid humans, study finds
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Wasabi linked to ‘substantial’ memory boost
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Creatures that don't conform: Slime molds and their fascinating existence
28 votes -
The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
27 votes -
What's an obelisk, anyway?
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Long presumed to have no heads at all, sea stars may be nothing but
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Cow magnets
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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When armor met lips
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Genetic engineering was meant to save chestnut trees. Then there was a mistake.
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Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies
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The incredible latent abilities of living things — slime mould is amazing!
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Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live
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What causes fainting? Scientists finally have an answer.
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First clinical trial confirms HIV vaccine using Moderna inoculation
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‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures
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For the first time in the United States, research with cephalopods might require approval by an ethics committee
21 votes -
First patients to get CRISPR gene-editing treatment continue to thrive
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Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
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21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant
21 votes -
Scientists discover new ecosystem underneath hydrothermal vents
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Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them
20 votes -
If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats
20 votes -
A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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Apparently snow lepoards bite their tails more than you'd think
@payoletter: snow leopards biting their tails: a thread
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Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
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Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
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Powerful ‘machine scientists’ distill the laws of physics from raw data
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Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time
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Why prehistoric humans needed no braces: Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale sign of an underlying epidemic
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We broke phosphorus: Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements
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The million-dollar drug: How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was thirty years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared
19 votes -
Ethics questions arise as genetic testing of embryos increases
19 votes -
Six creatures that are actually real-life zombies
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New vaccine technology could protect from future viruses and variants
The vaccine antigen technology, developed by the University of Cambridge and spin-out DIOSynVax in early 2020, provided protection against all known variants of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes...
The vaccine antigen technology, developed by the University of Cambridge and spin-out DIOSynVax in early 2020, provided protection against all known variants of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – as well as other major coronaviruses, including those that caused the first SARS epidemic in 2002.
The studies in mice, rabbits and guinea pigs [...] found that the vaccine candidate provided a strong immune response against a range of coronaviruses by targeting the parts of the virus that are required for replication.
Professor Jonathan Heeney from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine, who led the research, [said] “We wanted to come up with a vaccine that wouldn’t only protect against SARS-CoV-2, but all its relatives.”
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RNA breakthrough creates crops that can grow fifty percent more potatoes, rice
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Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests
18 votes