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This ‘Brain Glue’ Could Someday Help People With Brain Injuries
Plastinated slices of the human brain exhibited at the Plastinarium, a museum, teaching center, and body preparations facility created by…
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A Rare Antelope Is Photographed Alive in the Wild for the First Time
Two Walter’s duikers caught by a camera trap in a Togolese nature park.Image: Assou et al. 2021 A recent camera…
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Narwhal Tusks Show Climate Change and Pollution Reshape the Arctic
There’s no question that we’re messing up the oceans big time. But shocking new research shows the world’s addiction to…
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There’s an Ancient Connection Between Our Saliva and Snake Venom
The Taiwan habu has venom glands that are rooted in a distant genetic past.Image: OIST/Steven Aird Humans and other mammals…
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Stanford Scientists Post mRNA Sequence for Moderna Vaccine on Github
A doctor preparing a dose of Moderna vaccine in Ostrava, Czech Republic, in January 2021.Photo: Radek Mica/AFP (Getty Images) A…
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These Mutant Rabbits Walk on Two Legs, and Geneticists Now Know Why
A sauteur d’Alfort rabbit walking on its front feet, the result of a genetic mutation.Photo: S. Boucher An entire lineage…
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Eating Mostly Restaurant Meals Linked to Higher Risk of Early Death
Signs for Taco Bell, Grinder, McDonalds, Panda Express fast-food restaurant line the streets in the Figueroa Corridor area of South…
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Researchers Found a Way to Send Tiny Robots Into Mouse Brains
Generations of laboratory mice like these recently became host to microscopic robot swarms.Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images) In a mind-bending…
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Some of Our Brain Cells Get More Active Hours After We Die, Study Finds
A picture of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner.Image: Fred TANNEAU / AFP (Getty Images) Even…
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This ‘Map of Life’ Shows Where Undiscovered Species May Be Lurking
An orangutan in Indonesia, one of the research team’s described biodiversity hotspots.Photo: CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) Nine…
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