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Wrong! @sciam.bsky.social claims that Earth's fungal hyphae in the topsoil (110 quadrillion km or ~12,000 light years) is enough to cover the distance from earth to Proxima Centauri and back. Well, the distance is 4.25 light-years. So the fungal hyphae will suffice for more than 1411 such trips.

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The title of this photo by Andrea and Maceo Grammatico is Biting Back.

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Today, I am exactly as old as Charles Darwin was when he died: 26,729 days. Depressing how little I have achieved by comparison. On the other hand, at my age, Mozart was already dead for more than 37 years.

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Females were cloned out of males. The feat was possible because males have all the chromosomes needed to make a female, but females lack one chromosome needed to make males. So, the the Genesis story of Eve and Adam's rib may be possible with CRISPR. www.newscientist.com/article/2585...

Female clones created from the blood of male mice | New Scientist

A CRISPR-based tool can perform sex reversal on male mouse embryos, reliably turning them into healthy females – a feat that could be valuable for conservation

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Cathemerality - Wikipedia

I am a cathemeral animal, i.e., an animal whose activity pattern is irregular throughout a 24-hour cycle, rather than following a strict daytime or nighttime schedule. I am proud to belong to the exclusive cathemeral club, which includes lions, lemurs, and coyotes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheme...

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People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and infections. www.newscientist.com/article/2585... www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Supercentenarians have hypervigilant immune systems that fight off cancer | New Scientist

People aged 110 or older seem to have a disproportionately high number of immune cells that fight off cancer and infections

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Re: Addiction to antidepressants. No industry wants to help people stop using their products.

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The great chain of being in reverse.

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And now the pro-Hamas idiots will add him to the list of innocents killed by Israel.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dwarfed by her dinner, a female polar bear feasts on the carcass of a sperm whale more than 100 times her mass. www.newscientist.com/article/2584...

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Reposted by Dan Graur

Unrivalled brilliance from 1962 His voice The backing vocals The orchestration [btw, there are many great books on the intertwined Black and Jewish history of jazz] youtu.be/WBugBEWVnpA?...

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Comin' Home Baby

YouTube video by Mel Tormé - Topic

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Under traditional Jewish law, a person born to a Jewish mother is Jewish, regardless of the father’s identity. This is matrilineage. In pre-Roman Britain the arrangement was matrilocality, whereby males moved to the female family. www.newscientist.com/article/2584...

DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain | New Scientist

Clans in north-east England were organised around maternal lineage prior to the Roman conquest of Britain, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals suggests

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In the upper right corner of Jan Brueghel the Elder (1611) painting "Air," a bat is shown holding a songbird in its jaws. Scientist would not officially observe this bat behavior for another 400 years. www.sciencenews.org/article/disc... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Conversations with Maya: Shantanu Gaur | Science News

Shantanu Gaur, Founder of Allurion: “Entrepreneurs give me hope. Every problem has a solution, and I take comfort in the fact that humans will inevitably find the solutions to any problems that imperil our future.” Me: Do Musk, Bezos, et al. inspire hope? www.sciencenews.org/sponsored/co...

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Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, sat down with Shantanu Gaur, Founder and CEO

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Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

For 27 years, the US Southwest has experienced a megadrought. A new hypothesis claims this megadrought is here to stay. www.sciencenews.org/article/unit...

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For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

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Dietary arginine drives codon-dependent MHC class I translation and improves immunity in colon tumorigenesis and respiratory viral infection

Eat arginine rich foods (pumpkin and squash seeds, peanuts and peanut butter, walnuts and almonds)! High dietary arginine boosts MHC class I translation and suppresses colorectal tumorigenesis. High dietary arginine enhances immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Arginine availability regulates arginyl tRNA levels and codon-dependent translation of MHC class I, tuning antigen presentation and shaping anti-viral and anti-tumor immunity.

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Body contact promotes social tolerance in bonobos and chimpanzees. Shoud humans adopt these techniques? Hugs, kisses, pats, & handholding may be OK. Sticking fingers in each other mouths and same-sex genital touches may decrease social tollerance. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Reassuring body contact promotes social tolerance in bonobos and chimpanzees

Abstract. Social tolerance underpins cooperation in humans and other social animals, but its proximate drivers in short-term, competitive contexts remain p

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Reassuring body contact promotes social tolerance in bonobos and chimpanzees

Abstract. Social tolerance underpins cooperation in humans and other social animals, but its proximate drivers in short-term, competitive contexts remain p

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Dan Graur @dgraur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On Sunday, I’ll get an mRNA flu shot, #mFLUSIVA. In a study of >40,000 people, those who received mFLUSIVA had about 27% fewer cases of influenza than those who received a standard-dose flu vaccine. The vaccine also produced a stronger immune response. Thank you Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman!

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I wonder if this cryptic cartoon by @twisteddoodles in @newscientist.com is an oblique reference to #JasonArdei's job interview by @camedfac.bsky.social.

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Dan Graur @dgraur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My nominee for the @nobelprize.org in Medicine and Physiology is Jurgen Piek, who discovered that many ovarian cancers originate in the fallopian tubes. This discovery has the potential to save thousands of women's lives.

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Dan Graur @dgraur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Humans sleep the least of all apes. Is this the secret to our success? Humans sleep on average 7.0 hours per night ans spend 22% of their sleep in REM phase. Chimpanzees sleep on average 9.7 hours of which 15% is REM. In both apes REM is about 1.5 hours. www.newscientist.com/article/2530...

Humans sleep the least of all apes – is it the secret to our success? | New Scientist

Sleep is essential, yet humans have evolved to need so little of it. When evolutionary anthropologist David Samson delved into our ancient past to find the reasons why, he discovered surprising ways t...

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Klotho Gene Therapy Coming 2026 | Longevity, Cognitive Health, Cardiovascular Support

You can soon live longer through an injection of an untested gene therapy administered by a company called Minicircle in Honduras, Bahamas, or Panama. That is if you believe that a person with a BA from University of North Carolina Pembroke is the new messiah. minicircle.io/our-therapie...

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Launching in 2026—Klotho Gene Therapy is designed to promote longevity, improve cognition, and support whole-body vitality.

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Tooth proteins suggests all 23 Homo naledi individuals found in a cave in South Africa were female. Reasons? 1 They are all ♀s 2 The ♂ protein degrades faster than the ♀ one 3 The ♂ protein gene was deleted in H. naledi www.newscientist.com/article/2531... www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

All known Homo naledi skeletons seem to be female | New Scientist

An analysis of tooth proteins suggests all 23 Homo naledi individuals found in the Rising Star cave in South Africa were female, which strengthens the case that they were placed there deliberately

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Pareidolia is the tendency of the human mind to look at random objects and see familiar patterns, most notably human faces.

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The Non-Constructive Proof or the Coitus Interruptus of Mathematics. The NP-complete problem = a problem that has a solution that is very easy to verify once found, but finding the solution from scratch is notoriously difficult. www.tumblr.com/judgestarlin...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · The Non-Constructive Proof or the Coitus Interruptus of Mathematics · Now I know that the phenomenon I first encountered when I first collaborated with a computer scientist has a n…

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As we age, tissue-resident macrophages lose their ability to clear out old, and hence damaging, neutrophils. Restoring the ability to remove these old cells prevented signs of cognitive decline and frailty in mice. May be in people too. www.newscientist.com/article/2580...