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  • @nautilus You're Not a Universal Mosquito Magnet #Science #Biology #Insects

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    Aug 20, 2026

  • @scientific_american Life's 'last universal common ancestor' may predate life itself #Science #Biology #Evolution

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    Aug 20, 2026

  • @scientific_american What makes a narwhal's tusk so special? Scientists are close to unraveling the mystery #Science #MarineLife #Biology

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    Aug 18, 2026

  • @gizmodo Crocodiles Evolved Backwards From Warm-Blooded Species to Cold-Blooded Killers #Science #Biology #Evolution

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    Aug 14, 2026

  • @quanta Why Aging May Be a Program, Not a Breakdown #Science #Biology #Aging

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    Aug 14, 2026

  • @gizmodo Scientists Identify Mushroom That Makes You Hallucinate 'Tiny People' #Science #Mushroom #Biology

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    Aug 13, 2026

  • @gizmodo Scientists Don't Actually Know How Long Fungi Can Live. The Reasons Are Kind of Weird #Science #Biology #Fungi

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    Aug 13, 2026

  • @gizmodo This 236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Just Rewrote the Story of Live Birth #Science #Biology #Evolution

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    Aug 13, 2026

  • @gizmodo High Schooler Plays Football With Venomous Snake in His Helmet for an Hour, Somehow Escapes Unscathed #Science #Animals #Biology

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    Aug 12, 2026

  • @scientific_american Humans' sense of smell is still evolving #Science #Evolution #Biology

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    Aug 11, 2026

  • @ars_technica How snails engineer their slime #Science #Biology #Nature

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    Aug 7, 2026

  • @gizmodo The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi #Science #Biology #Nature

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    Jul 31, 2026

  • @npr_national Here's how 'parasite' went from a laughing matter to a serious biological threat #Science #Health #Biology

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    Jul 30, 2026

  • @npr_science Here's how 'parasite' went from a laughing matter to a serious biological threat #Science #Biology #Research

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    Jul 30, 2026

  • @npr_news Here's how 'parasite' went from a laughing matter to a serious biological threat #Science #Health #Biology

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    Jul 30, 2026

  • @scientific_american Avocado flowers switch sex daily--now we know why #Science #Biology #Botany

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    Jul 29, 2026

  • @gizmodo These Moths Smell Flowers Through Their Wings, Study Finds #Science #Biology #Insects

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    Jul 27, 2026

  • @gizmodo Inbreeding Should Have Slowed Down These Pesky Brown Tree Snakes. Well... #Science #Biology #Evolution

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    Jul 27, 2026

  • @quanta A New Way That a Cow's Inner World Shapes Earth's Atmosphere #Science #Biology #Environment

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    Jul 27, 2026

  • @scientific_american Can bees sense magnetic fields? #Science #Insects #Biology

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    Jul 27, 2026

  • @nyt_science Can This New Enzyme Turn Back the Clock in Bodily Tissues? #Science #Biology #Research

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    Jul 24, 2026

  • @gizmodo Naked Mole-Rat Queens Release a Chemical to Stop Other Females From Reproducing #Science #Biology #Animals

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    Jul 22, 2026

  • @nyt_science Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading #Science #Biology #Animals

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    Jul 22, 2026

  • @gizmodo Scientists Discover the First-Ever Contagious Cancer in Fish #Science #Biology #Health

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    Jul 22, 2026

  • @scientific_american These whales are the only ones that flip upside down. Now we know why #Science #Whales #Biology

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    Jul 22, 2026

  • @ars_technica Naked mole-rat queens keep their colonies in line with a scent #Science #Biology #AnimalBehavior

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    Jul 21, 2026

  • @quanta The Organisms That Make Earth's Harshest Places Home #Science #Biology #Extremophiles

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    Jul 20, 2026

  • @hackaday How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart #Science #Biology #Octopus

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    Jul 17, 2026

  • @quanta Martin Picard's Mitochondrial Theory of Mind #Science #Biology #Neuroscience

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    Jul 17, 2026

  • @fast_company Forget AI training data. This startup learned from slime mold #Innovation #AI #Biology

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    Jul 17, 2026

  • @npr_science 'Superworms' help scientists with a vexing task: Cleaning animal specimens #Science #Research #Biology

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    Jul 17, 2026

  • @gizmodo Mutant Rodents Are Developing Rat Poison Resistance #Science #Biology #Evolution

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    Jul 15, 2026

  • @quanta Why Am I Left-Handed? #Science #Biology #Genetics

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    Jul 13, 2026

  • @gizmodo That Thing You've Heard About Baby Rattlesnakes? It's Wrong #Science #Animals #Biology

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    Jul 13, 2026

  • @npr_news Pythons' extreme biology may hold clues for treating human disease #Science #Health #Biology

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    Jul 13, 2026

  • @kottke What's the Point of Sex, Anyway? "There is yet... #Science #Biology #Evolution

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    Jul 8, 2026

  • @quanta Is Life Just Different? #Science #Biology #Life

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    Jul 8, 2026

  • @gizmodo Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature #Science #Paleontology #Biology

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