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Bacteria, acids, and enzymes in ants can kickstart the fermentation process that turns milk into yogurt, say researchers who add ants to their yogurt making recipe.

A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds (2018)

The pan-cancer proteome atlas, a mass spectrometry-based landscape for discovering tumor biology, biomarkers, and therapeutic targets

A new, highly potent class of immunotherapeutics with unique Velcro-like binding properties can kill diverse cancer types without harming healthy tissue, University of California…

Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven (2023)

Electrical stimulation can reprogram the immune system to heal the body faster.

Collaborating with a robot biases human spatial attention

Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage

The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey

Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter driven by pasture expansion, cropland expansion, and forest management

Brain cells learn faster than machine learning, new research reveals

A new study charts the planetary boundary of “functional biosphere integrity” across time and space, revealing that 60% of global land is already outside the local safe zone—38% of it deep in the high-risk zone.

Breakthrough in Gene Editing Allows Massive, Clean DNA Changes in Plants and Humans

Four-legged animal paw pads got their toughness thanks to a single protein called Slurp1 that protects skin cells from stress & evolved to protect paw skin from mechanical pressure as creatures adapted to walking on land while also supporting a creature’s weight during running and jumping.

U-Wash study names previously undiscovered cellular vomiting process “Cathartocytosis,” wherein differentiated cells jettison material during reprogramming.

Comparative analyses for plant virus-based cancer immunotherapy drug development - Plant virus triggers immune response that targets and destroys cancer cells

Similar types of information went viral (such negative and high-arousal information) long before social media and the internet, according to a new article on the "Psychology of Virality"

Common amino acid found to speed up skin wound healing

New Research Identifies Brain Mechanism That Distinguishes Imagination from Reality

Manipulating trapped air bubbles in ice for message storage in cold regions

A new study shows that each person has a unique nasal breathing pattern – like a fingerprint

Lateralized sleeping positions in domestic cats

Up to 83% of key carbon-storing fungi in forests are unnamed and unknown – the so-called “dark taxa.” New research maps where to find them and how to protect them.

Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise

A device powered only by sunshine can harvest drinkable water from the air — even in one the world’s driest deserts.

Scientists have developed a gel that releases some of coral larvae's favorite scents

The roundworm C. elegans avoid dead worms using special nerve cells. Sensing death makes them have babies sooner, but shortens their lives.

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2

Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision enabled by upconversion contact lenses

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