Category: One
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New genes! New inventions! So?! (Me!)
Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by their last common ancestor. (1) Things discovered. Only because they would anyway be. By someone else. In the…
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A small drop… A deep ocean…
Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic world. (1) Flow. From a small drop. To a small creek. A great river. Giant sea. A deep ocean. Bottomless souls. Shallow language full of self-interest and dead trees. What else can there be? But the things that are already…
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Building…
Scientists have discovered a way to control the growth of twisting, microscopic spirals of materials just one atom thick. The continuously twisting stacks of two-dimensional materials built by a team create new properties that scientists can exploit to study quantum physics on the nanoscale. (1) 3D from 2D. 4D from 3D. 5D from 4D. And…
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Cloning. Being.
The identity of wild cloning sea star larvae has been a mystery since they were first documented in the Caribbean. The most commonly collected cloning species was thought to belong to the Oreasteridae, on the basis of similarity with sequences from Oreaster reticulatus and Oreaster clavatus. (1) Sea stars cloning themselves. Humans drowning. Stars exploding.…
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Blissfully sick…
While disease activity improves over time for most rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, long-term outcomes only improve in RA patients with autoantibodies, according to a new study. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that RA with and without autoantibodies are two distinct conditions. (1) Complicated beings humans are. Troubled by complicated diseases. Diseases…
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