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How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite
Mosquitoes use a sophisticated multi-step sensory system—combining CO₂ detection, body odor, visual cues, infrared radiation, and taste—to locate and...
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Mosquitoes use a sophisticated multi-step sensory system—combining CO₂ detection, body odor, visual cues, infrared radiation, and taste—to locate and...
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Sleeper sharks are slow-moving deep-sea predators that rank among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth. Their unique biochemistry, ultra-slow metabo...
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Hemozoin is a tiny iron crystal that malaria parasites produce to survive inside red blood cells. Understanding how it works has led to life-saving dr...
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Ravens don't simply follow wolves to scavenge meals. New research reveals they memorize landscape-scale hunting hotspots and fly directly to likely ki...
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The Younger Dryas was a sudden 1,200-year cold snap 12,900 years ago that killed megafauna, ended the Clovis culture, and may have pushed humans towar...
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Fusobacterium nucleatum, a common oral bacterium linked to gum disease, can travel through the bloodstream to fuel tumor growth in the colon, breast,...
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African sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies that invades the brain, disrupts sleep cycles, and kills without treatment. He...
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TDP-43 is a protein found in nearly every human cell. When it misfolds and clumps, it drives ALS, frontotemporal dementia, and possibly cancer — makin...
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Scientists mapped cancer genetics across nearly 500 cat tumors and found striking overlaps with human cancers, opening new paths for treatments that c...
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Tropical peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests combined, yet wildfires in these ecosystems have reached a 2,000-year high. Here's h...
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New research overturns the image of sharks as solitary killers. From bull sharks in Fiji to lemon sharks in the Bahamas, science reveals that many spe...
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De novo protein design lets scientists build entirely new proteins that never existed in nature—unlocking potential breakthroughs in medicine, vaccine...
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