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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 3h
This reversible tattoo ink can be switched on using UV light and stays invisible otherwise. Early tests show that it can still work after two years! 🧪 www.cell.com/matter-light...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 08/10/2026
Marine biologists discovered a new deep-sea coral, Laurinque elenya, near Costa Rica. Bright yellow, tree-like, and covered in brittle stars, its name combines two of Tolkien's Elvish words: Laurinquë (golden tree) and elenya (stellar)! 🧪 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1918...
In situ colonies of Laurinque elenya gen. et sp. nov. in Las Gemelas II, showing the octocoral garden within the brittle stars mat.

Credit: ROV SuBastian
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 07/10/2026
Megacauda sungei was an early mammal relative from the Jurassic that had a thick tail for swimming and hunting, like a platypus. It also had a modern-looking throat passage which offers clues into how modern mammals evolved the ability to swallow and suckle! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An artist’s visualization of Megacauda sungei, a 165-million-year-old mammal predecessor from China, which had strong hind limbs and a broad tail for swimming.

Credit: April I. Neander
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 06/10/2026
French paleontologists found a new mosasaurid in ancient freshwater deposits near Provence. Unlike the sea-going mosasaurs most people are familiar with, this older species had long limbs and was adapted to life in shallow freshwater! 🧪 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
An artist’s impression of the newly discovered freshwater mososaurid, Garamaudo bauciensis.

Credit: Bardet et al.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 05/10/2026
Scientists directly imaged DNA-DNA pairing for the first time! Both strands aligned groove-to-groove and were linked by ionic bridges across the minor grooves, an observation that may help explain how DNA recognizes matching sequences! 🧪 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Imaging of two DNA strands zipping together (left) and a computational model of the same (right).

Credit: Agnes Noy
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 04/10/2026
Biologists recently described this geothermal amoeba, Incendiamoeba cascadensis, which thrives at 147°F (64°C) and pushes the known eukaryote temperature limit past 140°F (60°C), suggesting that complex life can endure far hotter conditions than once thought! 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 03/10/2026
Astronomers discovered a new class of X-ray sources, described as "hypersoft", that were overlooked before because they emit extreme ultraviolet light which falls outside the range of most X-ray surveys. These include white dwarfs, black holes, and supernovae! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This composite image shows the locations of hypersoft X-ray sources in the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (The Pinwheel Galaxy).

Credit: NASA, CXC, Univ. of Alabama, Muhibullah et al., ESA, STScI, SAO, N. Wolk.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 03/10/2026
Elephants are an especially notable exception to my statement. I should have said "Most modern mammals..." instead!
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 02/10/2026
Modern mammals are diphyodonts and grow only two sets of teeth. This recently described Cretaceous mammal species, however, demonstrated polyphyodonty (repeated tooth replacement), along with webbed feet and a flat tail, suggesting it was a semi-aquatic predator! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An artist's reconstruction of the recently described semi-aquatic predator, Dongoconodon platycauda.

Credit: Shi Yukun.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 01/10/2026
This newly discovered feathered dinosaur, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that bird-like flight features evolved separately and gradually, in a step-wise manner, across multiple related dinosaur lineages! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Life reconstruction of Norellraptor barsboldi.

Credit: Zhao Chuang.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 01/10/2026
High-speed flight analysis and computational modeling suggest that butterfly wing patterns work in tandem with flight dynamics to create misleading motion cues that confuse predators! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 29/09/2026
Biologists measured 123 bird species and found that larger birds with wider beaks tend to be louder; Forest density and mating system don't correlate as much. The quietest are hummingbirds (64 dB) while the loudest are bare-throated bellbirds (122 dB)! 🧪 academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 28/09/2026
This robot uses its flexible legs to store energy and then release it in a sudden snap, like a frog. That burst gives it the extra force to hop, backflip, and even swim through water! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 27/09/2026
Dogs may be better at picking up patterns in human speech than previously thought. EEG recordings show that they track consonant patterns more strongly than vowel patterns, just like people do when segmenting speech! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A cute brown dog sitting comfortably on a couch, prepared for an EEG measurement.

Credit: Sarolta Sziliágyi
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 26/09/2026
A bow shock is a wave of gas and dust pushed ahead of a moving star, like the wave in front of a boat. RXJ0528+2838 is a dead star that has one that can't be explained by a past explosion or a companion star's wind which suggests it may be tied to magnetic activity! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Shock waves around the dead star RXJ0528+2838.

When a star moves through space, it can push away nearby material, creating a so-called bow shock, which in this image is glowing in red, green, and blue. The colors represent hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, respectively.

These shocks are usually produced by a strong outflow expelled from the star. However, in the case of RXJ0528+2838, a white dwarf with a Sun-like companion, astronomers discovered that the shock wave can't be explained by any known mechanism.

Credit: K. Iłkiewicz and S. Scaringi et al.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 25/09/2026
Blacktip sharks respond to low-frequency pulsed sounds from over 70 meters away, beyond the acoustic near field. They turn sharply away and swim off fast, suggesting they may sense tiny water movements caused by the traveling sound and not just the sound itself! 🧪 academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 24/09/2026
A new dinosaur, Kayrasaurus changliensis, has been described from Chinese fossils. This early therizinosaur had tiny teeth, a long neck, and big claws, providing new information about this unusual group's evolution! 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Life reconstruction of Jehol therizinosaurians, illustrating variation in body size, skeletal proportions and inferred ecological strategies among taxa. From bottom to top: L. sihedangensis is shown in a posture suggesting greater cursoriality; J. yixianensis is depicted engaging in lingual-assisted feeding, consistent with its robust hyoid apparatus; B. inexpectus exhibits a robust, less cursorial bauplan; and K. changliensis is reconstructed browsing on higher vegetation, reflecting its larger body size and inferred feeding strategy.

Credit: Kōhei Futaka
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 23/09/2026
More than 250 Patagonian dinosaur eggshell fragments suggest titanosaurs nested at extreme southern latitudes (55-60°S), probably in buried mound-style nests where microbial heat kept these developing sauropods warm! 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Life rendering of titanosaur hatchlings emerging from a nest in the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina.

Credit: Masato Hattori
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 22/09/2026
Genomic research suggests gentoo penguins are actually four distinct species. The lineages differ genetically and may need separate conservation plans, especially as some face greater habitat loss than others! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Geographic distribution of the four species of gentoo penguins around the Southern Ocean.

Credit: Daly Noll, Andrea Raya-Rey and Francesco Bonadonna
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 21/09/2026
About 18K years ago, artists in what is now northern Ukraine carved these small figurines from mammoth ivory. An imaging study suggests that the engraved lines may have been inspired by the natural patterns already present in the tusk material itself! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s40...
Assortment of Mizyn ivory figurines included in the linked study.

Credit: Radchenko et al.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 20/09/2026
Astronomers have discovered a new 222-meter crater on the Moon, formed by a 2024 impact. Named after planetary scientist Tom McGetchin, it's the largest modern crater in our Solar System! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Left) NAC image acquired before the impact event (M1273794308L,R)

Right) NAC image acquired after the impact (M1521345601L).

Images sampled at 1-m pixel scale; each panel is 925 m by 925 m (1.3536°N, 67.1765°E).

Credit: Robinson et al., 2026
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 20/09/2026
Kleptoparasitism occurs when one animal deliberately steals food from another. Marine biologists repeatedly observed this behavior in a bottlenose dolphin named Bubbles, which chases Bigeye Trevally until they vomit, then devours the regurgitated food! 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 18/09/2026
Biologists examining the DNA of wild cats found that the "tiger cat" group is actually five species instead of one. This study describes the first new cat identified in more than a century (Leopardus tilcayo) as well as a new subspecies (Leopardus tigrinus antisuyo)! 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
A Leopardus tilcayo at the Senda Verde animal refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region.

Credit: Fernando Faciole
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 17/09/2026
Paleontologists have described a new dicynodont species from museum specimens collected at Tanzania's Manda Beds, linking them to South American material of similar age and strengthening the case that these fossils are younger than previously thought! 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
 Life reconstruction of Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda.

Credit: Gabriel Ugueto
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 17/09/2026
Neuroscientists reconstructed natural movies from mouse brain activity, using visual cortex signals to rebuild 10-second videos at 30 fps with impressive accuracy! 🧪 elifesciences.org/articles/105...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 16/09/2026
Phytoplasmas are pathogens that can disrupt how plants grow. This study shows how one of their proteins can block the machinery that controls flower development, causing normal flowers (left) to turn into leaf-like structures (right)! 🧪 www.jbc.org/article/S002...
Normal Arabidopsis flower (left) versus Arabidopsis flower when phyllogen is present (right).

Credit: Chloe Zubieta
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 15/09/2026
A group of African wild dogs traveled 2,485 miles between two Zambian national parks in search of a mate. It's the farthest journey of its kind for an African mammal and a reminder that we must also protect land that connects these wild spaces! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Movements by African wild dogs dispersing from Zambia's South Luangwa National Park (SLNP) along a protected corridor have connected with North Luangwa (NLNP), Luambe (LuNP), Lukusuzi (LkNP), and Lower Zambezi (LZNP) National Parks.

Recently, three males left Kafue National Park (KNP) and moved >2600 km through unprotected areas in the center of the country to connect with four females from SLNP who had moved more than 1500 km, linking the stronghold populations of the Greater Kafue and Luangwa Valley Ecosystems.

An unknown wild dog recently immigrated into Liuwa Plains National Park (LPNP) at a time when all individuals (a single pack) were well known. Thus all of the wild dog populations in Zambia remain connected to other populations. Black outline with crosshatch: National Parks. Gray: Game Management Areas, with lower protection than National Parks.

The 2020 Human Impact Index (Sanderson et al., 2022) is mapped from low (blues) to high (yellows): Dispersing wild dogs maneuver effectively around areas with high human activity.

Wild dog illustration by Bridger Creel.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 13/09/2026
Bee vision is more diverse than expected. Some small solitary bees, including the males of one species, have sharper visual acuity than the more familiar female honeybee. This helps them better detect movements from threats or potential mates! 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The blue-banded bee Amegilla murrayensis, one of the species included in the linked study, whose visual acuity is sharper than the honeybee.

Credit: Callin Switzer
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 12/09/2026
Four adult Tyrannosaurus rex footprints constitute an ancient trackway in North Dakota, the first known of its kind, and offer a rare glimpse into how these predators roamed the Cretaceous landscape! 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Adult Tyrannosaurus rex walking across the Cretaceous landscape. It leaves four prints in the mud, which are discussed in the linked paper.

Credit: Andrey Atuchin
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 11/09/2026
A newly discovered ancient feather, preserved in fossilized dinosaur dung, likely came from an extinct aquatic bird and suggests that modern-looking feathers were already around before the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact! 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
While some dinosaurs are thought to have had "fuzzy" or "downy" feathers (shown in this illustration as the yellow spikes on a Nanotyrannus' neck), ancient birds (such as the one in the Nanotyrannus' mouth) were more likely to have had feathers that look similar to the birds of today.

Credit: Andrey Atuchin
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 10/09/2026
Betel nuts are the oldest known habitual-use neuroactive plant drug. Recently discovered skeletal remains suggest that ancient foragers likely used this stimulant long before farming began (16-25k years ago)! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The schematic illustration depicts the preferred positions of whole betel nuts held in the mouths of a Late Pleistocene forager (Maros-LBB-1a) and a middle Holocene forager (CPL-R2a), as inferred from dental wear analysis.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 10/09/2026
Britain’s Devil’s Arrows stones were brought from Brimham Rocks, 18 km away, instead of being taken from local ground. This finding suggests that prehistoric people deliberately picked stones from a culturally meaningful location for monument building! 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article...
The central and northern stones in 2018.

Credit: G Laird
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 09/09/2026
Observations of glacier-ocean boundaries are rare because they’re difficult and dangerous to reach. Despite this, an underwater drone at Naajat Sermiat measured glacier shape, meltwater discharge, and documented unexpectedly high animal activity at this boundary! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 07/09/2026
Paleontologists recreated the sounds of Jurassic insects by combining laser vibrometry and computational simulations. They found that these ancient katydid ancestors probably made a surprising variety of calls, including pure tones and ultrasonic sounds! 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 06/09/2026
Archaeologists found small stone points in Uzbekistan that were likely used as arrowheads. They’re different from larger ones common among Neanderthal sites in Europe and suggest that the use of projectiles began earlier in Central Asia than previously thought! 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Artist's depiction of the Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter in Uzbekistan with micro-point hafting details inset to the left.

Credit: Malvina Baumann
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 05/09/2026
Ancient DNA reveals that the Pleistocene "American cheetah" (Miracinonyx trumani) wasn't a true cheetah, but was instead a close cousin of the puma. One population hunted on land in Wyoming, while another reached the Canadian Arctic and may have primarily fed on fish! 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
An artistic rendering of two Miracinonyx, one in Beringia preying mainly on fish and one in the Lower 48 feeding on pronghorn antelope. 

The orange dots on the map (lower left) depict the presumed epicenters of both sub-populations.

Credit: Julius Csotonyi
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 05/09/2026
Thismia daemona, or the devil flower, is a newly described "fairy lantern" from Thailand. This parasitic flowering plant spends most of its life underground and steals nutrients from its fungal hosts. 🧪 phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/2028...
Thismia daemona in natural habitat.

Credit: N. TaosiriThismia daemona Seelanan & Chantanaorr:
A. Underground part showing hairy roots
B. Above-ground shoots with flowers
C. Top view of mitre showing irregular papillose surface
D. Side view of flower showing outer lobe
E. Longitudinal section of floral tube showing inner surface, three stamens, stylar column and styles
F. Epidermal cells of transversal bar
G. Stamens outer view. 
H. Stylar column and styles.

Credit: N. Taosiri (B, C, E, G, H) and C. Chuchuea (A, D, F)
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 04/09/2026
New Hubble Space Telescope images reveal a 10-sided shape near Saturn’s south pole, mirroring the hexagon found at its north pole. This decagon has been morphing over time and is likely caused by an atmospheric wave trapped between powerful jet streams! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
NASA Hubble images show the gas giant Saturn and its southern pole - home to a 10-sided atmospheric wave.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 02/09/2026
Cacao DNA found on pottery from the Etowah site in Georgia shows that this chocolate ingredient was part of Mississippian life, just as it was at Chaco Canyon and Cahokia, pointing to far-reaching cacao trade networks across pre-Columbian North America! 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
An artist’s conception of Etowah, a Mississippian culture site located on the banks of the Etowah River in Bartow County, Georgia.

Credit: Herb RoeA map depicting three archaeological sites in the United States where evidence of cacao has been discovered.  The most recent site is Etowah, in Georgia.  Other sites include Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and Cahokia in Missouri.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 01/09/2026
Snake embryos begin life curled up in a right-handed spiral. This coiling is a result of their bodies growing faster than their guts during early development leading to twisting around these slower-developing internal tissues! 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
An embryo of a Cape house snake (Boaedon capensis) stained to show developing muscle blocks in the trunk. The embryo shows right-handed coiling.

Credit: Raul Diaz
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 01/09/2026
Drones are great at zooming around but their batteries drain quickly when needing to hover for long periods. This system lets them perch like an inverted bird using a soft robotic hand with touch sensors so they can grip different perches even in low visibility! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 30/08/2026
Astrophysicists used faint distortions in the cosmic microwave background to probe gravity between galaxy clusters over enormous distances. Results support a standard cosmology and suggest that alternative gravity theories are unlikely! 🧪 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
The cosmic microwave background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang that fills all of space, passes through massive galaxy clusters whose motion slightly alters the light, allowing scientists to measure how fast the clusters are moving toward one another and test how strongly gravity pulls across the largest distances in the universe.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 29/08/2026
Cyborg cockroaches (Macropanesthia rhinoceros) are being tested as rescue helpers that can get into areas people can’t. They are remotely guided and may even be used to deliver doses of medication to patients who need emergency treatment! 🧪 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Biorobotics researchers have transformed North Queensland giant burrowing cockroaches (Macropanesthia rhinoceros) into minature cyborg "medics". 

Credit: University of QueenslandA human-supervised swarm of paramedic cyborg cockroaches is deployed in a complex disaster environment for victim localization and on-site medical assistance.

After victim identification, two cyborg cockroaches, equipped with a teleoperated auto-injection mechanism (left) and an onboard camera (right), navigate through collapsed structures to locate victims.

Once the camera-carrying cyborg locates the victim and the drug-delivery cyborg is positioned and immobilized, the injection mechanism is remotely triggered. The injector launches and delivers medication in situ to help stabilize the victim's condition until rescue.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 28/08/2026
This light-powered soft robot stores energy, snaps forward, lands, and resets itself, much like an origami frog. It hops over rough terrain, climbs slopes, and even paddles across water! 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 27/08/2026
Betelgeuse has puzzled astronomers for ages because of its unexplained, but semi-regular, brightness fluctuations. New observations suggest that a closely orbiting companion star may be contributing to this effect! 🧪 www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have obtained the clearest image ever of what likely is Betelgeuse B, a star orbiting Betelgeuse. The image in the middle inset in this image was taken in January 2019 with the SPHERE instrument at ESO’s VLT, and shows Betelgeuse itself. The image in the inset on the left was taken in December 2024, when the companion was predicted to be furthest apart from Betelgeuse as seen from Earth. In this inset Betelgeuse has been removed, revealing a source (marked with a crosshair) consistent with being Betelgeuse B.

Credit: ESO/M. Montargès et al.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 26/08/2026
Named after the Navajo word for insect, ch'osh, the newly described Carboniferous fossil Chosha praecursor is the oldest known of its kind. It had 24 legs which included paddle-like limbs that suggest it may have been semi-aquatic! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An artist's reconstruction of Chosha praecursor, a 324-million-year-old early insect with 24 legs, which is helping scientists take another look at the evolutionary path insects took from water to land.

Credit: Chao Tan
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 25/08/2026
Setulae are tiny hair-like structures found on some lizards that may help them lose less water in dry climates by trapping humid air near the skin. In computer models, these structures reduce evaporation by up to 3x! 🧪 pubs.aip.org/avs/bip/arti...
Top: A Tokay gecko clings to a pane of glass.

Bottom: A series of scanning electron microscope images of lizard skin, showing the tiny hairs, or setulae, in greater detail. A computer simulation mimics these hairs, revealing how they trap air and prevent moisture loss is on the far right.

Credit: Filippov et al.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 24/08/2026
Paleontologists discovered two fossil trackways from Mesozoic Brazil that were made by puma-sized mammaliaforms. These are the biggest known in the area and suggest that some mammal relatives grew much larger than previously thought! 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Even in the vast paleodesert of Botucatu, where almost no corporeal fossils have been preserved, the preserved footprints allow us to learn something about the inhabitants who walked there. The producer of the ichnofossil Aracoaraichnium leonardii was possibly a Mammaliaforme, with short legs, smaller hands than feet, and four toes on each. Here, it is shown predating a small theropod, with the shape of its feet also inferred from minute footprints. Another inhabitant of the desert would be beetles, like the producer of Paleohelcura araraquarensis. Many of these animals were likely active during the night, avoiding the scorching temperatures of the day.

Credit: Júlia d'Oliveira These tracks are nearly twice as big as any other mammalian footprints found at the Botucatu Formation.
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 23/08/2026
Hookworms produce neurotensin-like peptides that mimic this important digestive hormone, revealing a newly discovered way that these parasites manipulate host gut function! 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...
A hookworm attached to the intestinal mucosa.

Credit: CDC
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 22/08/2026
This faint star (S301, orbit depicted on video in blue) whips around our galaxy's supermassive black hole at ~8% the speed of light which provides astronomers a way to test gravity in the most extreme environment ever observed! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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