Biology

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How Mosquitoes Find You—Five Senses That Guide the Bite Science

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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What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years? Science

What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years?

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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What Is Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites Science

What Is Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites

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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How Ravens Memorize Wolf Kill Sites to Find Food Science

How Ravens Memorize Wolf Kill Sites to Find Food

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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What Is the Younger Dryas and Why It Changed History Science

What Is the Younger Dryas and Why It Changed History

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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How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth Science

How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth

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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What Is Sleeping Sickness and How Does It Kill? Health

What Is Sleeping Sickness and How Does It Kill?

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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What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia Science

What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia

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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How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors Science

How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors

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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How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning Science

How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning

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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How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters Science

How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters

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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How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch Science

How Scientists Design Proteins From Scratch

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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