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I've followed the general outlines of artificial abiogenesis experiments for decades now, but I did not see this coming. (And my apologies to any actual biologists who knew about this line of reseach ages ago and find this old news.) First some...
by JMcDonald
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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This is footage from a hearing on a Transgender Bathroom bill in Ohio. All of it is fascinating but the most relevant portion 13:55 when Ranking Member Joe Miller (D) contrasts this bill with Racist Jim Crow laws, and the tendency to otherize people...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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While I’ve been filming the birds at my Huntsville feeder, I’ve also been watching the squirrels. One of the biggest and baddest of the lot is a male with a torn ear. This boar seems to be the dominant male, and I’ve watched him chase other males away...
by backwoodsbob
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 10:36 AM PST
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Sympoesis Despite the widely inaccurate view that we live in or on an environment and must therefore protect what we depend on, we are made up of environments (4 billion years worth of co-evolving associations, living and non-living) and moreover,...
by Campion
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 01:19 PM PST
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Like Christmas trees, Santa and reindeer, the poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holiday season in the U.S. and across Europe.
But now, nearly 200 years after the plant with the ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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I honestly don’t remember when or how I found out how human reproduction works. By the time my mother made my father have “The Talk” with me — because that is how that dynamic generally works, errr, I’ve been told — he asked me if I knew how that went...
by skralyx
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 10:24 PM PST
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I came upon a pile of feathers a few days ago while walking my dogs through Hutt Park . Hutt Park is a small pocket of allegedly remnant old-growth�forest no more than 2 acres in area nestled among ...
by BrownsBay
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on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Autoimmune disorders — where the immune system mistakes something harmless in the body for a pathogen or threat — are not much fun for the people who are stuck with them. And these disorders have been gradually increasing in prevalence over the last...
by skralyx
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 08:32 PM PDT
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 08:58 PM PDT
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Four birds named Ōtepoti, Bunker, Motupōhue, and Māhutonga were released July 19 onto Te Ika-a-Māui (the North Island) of New Zealand. They are the first kākāpō to walk the mainland in four decades. Kākāpō live nowhere else in the world. New Zealand...
by skralyx
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 08:19 PM PDT
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More than 500 million years ago, the three living groups of chordates — the ones with backbonish structures — went our separate ways. These are the cephalochordates (lancelets), the tunicates (sea squirts, salps, and some others), and the vertebrates....
by skralyx
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on Fri Jul 07, 2023 at 09:11 PM PDT
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It’s been a really good week for bivalves. Why, just a week ago in the journal Science we found out that the shell hinge from the freshwater cockscomb mussel can be opened and closed 1,500,000 times in succession without suffering any fatigue damage...
by skralyx
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on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 10:08 PM PDT
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Six years after plunging into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft discovers phosphate in Enceladus' ocean I’m sure you remember the Cassini mission to Saturn. What I remember most about it is that my daughter, who is about to attend college in the fall, used to love to watch videos about it when she was barely old enough to speak. “Cassini!” she would...
by skralyx
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 08:03 PM PDT
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When I was first hired at the university as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, I was expected to conduct and publish new research on biological control, teach occasional classes, and monitor college and graduate students through their projects....
by Desert Scientist
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on Thu Jun 29, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Comments are now complete. Sorry for the delay. Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Jun 04, 2023 at 07:07 PM PDT
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We’ve been trying to mount an effective response to Alzheimer’s disease for about a century now, but unfortunately we haven’t made a whole lot of progress in understanding it, let alone curing it. But a study whose very nature meant it would take...
by skralyx
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on Tue May 16, 2023 at 07:34 PM PDT
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Personal Experience: What it is and why we have it (a treatise on consciousness) By Thomas Crown A non-fiction book that solves some of the hard problems of consciousness 150 pages Preface I am not qualified to write this book… on paper. I am not a...
by 40ford
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on Tue May 09, 2023 at 03:50 PM PDT
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This will prove interesting. Disney has a huge family friendly non-controversial message about love, kindness, death (coco), and the importance of family, and finding yourself despite bigotry and ignorance (Luca (a favorite)). Disney has also added to...
by iarnstein
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on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 12:43 PM PDT
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When I was a kid, there were bees everywhere. They’d be on the clover, the dandelions, and any other flowers that happened to be around. I must have been stung a dozen times. But now that I think of it, I don’t see a heck of a lot of bees anymore....
by skralyx
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on Sun Apr 09, 2023 at 09:07 PM PDT
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So much goes on in nature and in our Universe that we humans don’t perceive. We think we’ve got our world all figured out, and then something like this comes along. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that plants make audible, airborne...
by skralyx
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on Sat Apr 01, 2023 at 08:40 PM PDT
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