Autotomy, the voluntary shedding or detachment of a body part at a determined cleavage plane, is a common anti-predation defense mechanism in several animal taxa, including arthropods. Among arachnids...

If the Amazon rainforest functions as our planet’s lungs, what do raging wildfires threaten? An atmospheric scientist explains why the fires, though devastating, won’t suffocate life on Earth.

Paniculate agaves from tropical deserts depend on nectar-feeding bats for their reproduction, while species from extratropical areas near the northern limit of Leptonycteris curasoae are pollinated b....

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This bridge was 3D printed in just 6 months! 🌉 via @IntEngineering https://t.co/knMWNN0X5S

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Kenney Blewett’s wife said her husband was hopeful the medication would work but said, ‘I wish we had the chance to find out’

Amend the Carer’s Allowance rules so unpaid carers continue to be paid their allowance after 28 days if they are still providing essential care in the hospital and require NHS trusts to confirm in wri...

Fun fact: we have little bugs that live on our eyelashes (and other areas). they can travel up to 16 cm per hour https://t.co/si0JCMueVT

Fun fact: like red blood cells, platelets dont have a nucleus https://t.co/t4GoXZxy3F

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Scientific Reports - Fecal sample collection methods and time of day impact microbiome composition and short chain fatty acid concentrations

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Viral activity exerts a particularly important role in the dark ocean across the global tropical and subtropical oceans.

Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il

Defecation in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is a stereotyped sequence of effector responses that occur with a regular ultradian rhythm. Here I used video microscopy to describe new features and co...

This Comment discusses recent studies supporting the existence of concatenated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) segments integrated into the nuclear genome, which may explain previous observations suggesting the existence of a biparental mode of mtDNA inheritance.

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The digestive tract of the whiteback vulture (Gyps africanus) is described. Some disease organisms were fed to a captive bird to discover if they could survive passage through the tract, and the role ...

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Stephen Byres Simpson wore scrubs, carried a stethoscope and pager and used the identity of a real medical student to gain access to restricted areas of ARI.

Coriander is one of the most interesting of herbs/spices given the polarizing (or bivalent) responses that the fresh leaf evokes in people. While many…

Chang et al. investigate the hearts of shrews, the mammals with the greatest heart rate. Mostly, the hearts have the expected anatomical traits, but the extent of the myocardium in the pulmonary vein....

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