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Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age

6 years ago elifesciences.org

Ants can sense a chemical cue from other colony members with a fungal infection and respond by spraying them with an antiseptic poison that kills both the ant and the fungus inside.

6 years ago elifesciences.org

The brain treats talking inside of our heads as essentially the same thing as talking out loud, according to new research

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Mobile phones – including basic flip phones – can accurately record the sound of mosquito wingbeats with species-specific frequencies, enabling rapid low-cost mosquito surveillance using a citizen-science approach.

7 years ago elifesciences.org

Scientists have found the first evidence that the human brain uses a lymphatic system to drain waste and fluid from itself.

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The readability of scientific texts is decreasing

7 years ago elifesciences.org

ScienceBeam – using computer vision to extract PDF data

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Atlantic herring mutate about 6 times slower than humans, with only 2 changes per billion bases per generation

7 years ago elifesciences.org

Skeletal muscle and not the brain may hold answers to some sleep disorders

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Analysis of oxygen isotopes present in fossils suggests three independent acquisitions of warm-bloodedness in the mammalian lineage, likely driven by extreme fluctuations in climate.

7 years ago elifesciences.org