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Fermented foods shaped human biology

Sperm in space are likely to get disoriented and lost while struggling to find their way to an egg, a new study has found

A new study provides the first scientific evidence that two species of ticks, lone star and Gulf Coast ticks, can live at least one week, and up to about three weeks…

Scientists tried to clone clones forever

Teen Sleep Deprivation Rises Despite Screen Time Not Being Primary Cause

Researchers gene-edit the bitterness out of grapefruit

Platypuses just got even weirder

Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals

Partial cellular reprogramming restores youthful gene activity in aged cells

Researchers developed durum wheat lines that survive freezing while maintaining premium pasta quality

Tribe in Kenya Evolved Genetic Mutation That Lets Them Survive with Almost No Water

Textbooks wrong: Human hair grows in surprising new way

Live bacteria from the gut can travel directly into the brain when the intestinal barrier is weakened with a high fat diet in mice

Fully Functional Hair Follicles Have Been Grown in The Lab For The First Time

Recent pandemic viruses jumped to humans without prior adaptation. No evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was shaped by selection in a laboratory: UCSD study.

Microbes That 'Disarm' Peanut Allergy Proteins Discovered in Mouth And Gut

Scientists quantify the energy cost of RNA synthesis in developing sea urchins, revealing it uses ~11% of cellular energy

We Finally Know How Bumblebee Queens Can Survive Underwater For Days

Overturning long held assumptions, some plankton rotate their bodies into a current to rise more quickly to the surface, a strategy researchers have dubbed surfing [Journal of Experimental Biology]

Chickpeas Grown in Simulated Moon Dirt Produced Viable Seeds With a Fungal Assist. It turns out that the plants didn’t just sprout

DNA sequencing of the bristlecone pine shows about 21,000 genes in a genome eight times the size of the human genome, with most of the rest being DNA repeats

Plant-based dietary patterns are associated with slower epigenetic aging

Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species

Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling

Raccoons will solve puzzles just for fun

Moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery | Silent witness: a moss provides important evidence in solving a cemetery crime

Python blood could hold the secret to healthy weight loss, it could inform new weight loss therapies that promote satiety without the nausea and muscle loss that can come with existing drugs

Researchers have found the human brain consumes roughly 20% of the body’s total energy, even though it accounts for only about 2% of body weight, This high energy demand is largely due to constant neural activity required for functions like thinking…

New allergy immunotherapy for cross-reactive allergies (food and pollen) based on mRNA and consensus designed allergens

AI cancer tools risk “shortcut learning” rather than detecting true biology

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