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388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist

Ant Colonies Pulse Like a Physical System

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

Land hermit crabs move a parasitic plant's seeds on their claws and through their guts, a seed dispersal route never recorded before

I should have loved biology (2020)

Newly discovered carnivorous plant is as deceptive as it is deadly

The internet can’t get enough of cats… but cats might have had enough of the internet

UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing.

Long-term steroid use tied to heart damage and early death

People from different cultural backgrounds (Chinese, Dutch and Greek) have the same ‘tickle hotspots’ on the body

Cosmological natural selection: evolution beyond biology

Growing human organs inside animals keeps failing because the host embryo's earliest immune cells eat the donor cells alive

Study of fossilized feces from across the Cambrian period found the explosion of life around 540 million years ago could have been partly driven by the buildup of excrement produced by primitive sea creatures.

Researchers have found the more ultra-processed foods fathers consumed before conception, the higher their babies' birth weight and the greater the accumulation of fat in the thighs and around the waist at birth.

Study: Researchers use generative AI to create novel viruses that infect bacteria, raising biosafety concerns

Dolphins Filmed Hunting With Shells – And Possibly Passing Skill to Their Offspring

Evolutionary bacterial origin of mitochondria may hold clues to their role in inflammation: Mitochondrial proteins activate receptors of immune cells during lung injury

New method delivers sugars directly into cells

How snails engineer their slime | Calcium tunes snail mucus–based materials to multiple functions

Live sports synchronize spectator heart rates and elevate oxytocin

Maternal Gut Microbiome Could Shape Infant Health

A cortical-hypothalamic neural circuit for compulsive eating in mice

Frontiers | Transient entanglement in minimal open XXZ spin chains: a toy-model analogy for microtubule-inspired quantum biology

New study finds that evolutionary history may help explain why some people develop more severe COVID-19 than others

Notes from the Field: Misidentification of a Specimen as Neisseria meningitidis During a University Classroom Laboratory Exercise — Utah, 2025

Wireless biocompatible magnetic microparticles can remotely stimulate the vagus nerve to control heart and breathing rates in mice, offering a safer alternative to brain electrodes for treating neurological disorders.

Scientists discovered a new species of deep-sea siphonophore 6,500 feet below the surface near California's Channel Islands

The brain's immune system isn't as isolated as we thought, new Stanford research finds

Selective targeting of cancer and senescence via shared metabolic shifts extends lifespan of old mice

Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself. A new study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life"

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