Your gut bacteria may be hoarding your medication
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/gut-bacteria-medication-accumulation
Researchers have observed this effect in petri dishes and nematodes
Your gut bacteria may be hoarding your medication
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/gut-bacteria-medication-accumulation
Researchers have observed this effect in petri dishes and nematodes
Chimpanzees’ brains reflect their early childhood experiences
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/brain-development-chimpanzees-children-social-maternal
Proper socialization could make up, in part, for separation of a child from their mother
Meet the springhare: the first glow-in-the-dark African mammal known to science
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/springhare-glow-in-the-dark-rabbit
Researchers discovered the springhare’s fluorescent abilities entirely by accident
For the first time ever, researchers have "housebroken" cows
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/potty-training-cows-emissions-greenhouse-gas
Controlling where cow waste ends up could lead to cleaner air and water and decreased greenhouse gas emissions
Infants are being exposed to PFAS chemicals in breast milk
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/pfas-chemicals-breast-milk-food-safety
A new study finds that currently used PFAS — thought to be less dangerous than "legacy" versions — are becoming increasingly common in our bodies
Feeding extra amino acids to cells with a mutated enzyme makes them grow faster
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/ars-mutations-amino-acids-proteins
This new finding could lead to advances in treatment of diseases caused by ARS mutations
White pine blister rust’s habitat range is changing with the climate
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/white-pine-blister-pathogen-climate-change-california
New study in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks demonstrates the complexity of changing plant-pathogen interactions
Students can learn with their mouths as well as with their eyes and hands
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/stem-education-mouth-eyes-hands-accessibility
The finding is a win for education accessibility for blind and low-vision students
AI and machine learning could halve preventable errors in medicine
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/ai-artifical-intelligence-machine-learning-healthcare-tedmed
Researcher Suchi Saria works to bridge the gap between AI solutions and implementation in healthcare
Giant clams are growing faster than ever. That’s not a good thing
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/giant-clams-growth-fossils
This supercharged growth is likely due to nitrate aerosols in our modern atmosphere
There’s more than one way to discover a new species
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/new-species-discovery-naming-recognize
Papers published this year demonstrate the different paths to recognition
Skeletons’ broken clavicles tell a centuries-old tale of humans and horses
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/horses-riding-skeletons-bones-clavicle
Clavicle fractures can be used to identify horse riders from their bones
Researchers observe a boar releasing two caged younglings in a impassioned rescue
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/wild-boar-rescue-empathy-prosocial-behavior
The act sheds light on the prosocial behavior and empathy of wild boars, thought to be rare among animals
Le sanglier, un animal bien sympathique.
Près de Toulouse : le parcours d’un club de golf ravagé par le passage de sangliers
▻https://actu.fr/occitanie/vieille-toulouse_31575/pres-de-toulouse-le-parcours-d-un-club-de-golf-ravage-par-le-passage-de-sanglie
Female jumping spiders favor the most aggressive males
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/jumping-spider-aggression-males-competition
A new study provides evidence for sexual selection in these spiders
Roe deer pause development of their embryos for months, and researchers just learned how
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/roe-deer-diapause-protein-mtor
An embryonic phenomenon discovered over 150 years ago may finally have an explanation
Meet the warty comb jelly, the only animal with a disappearing anus
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/warty-comb-jelly-disappearing-anus-butt-month
Its anus appears and disappears every time it needs to poop, at least every hour. That’s just one strange facet of comb jelly biology
People with sickle cell disease are less likely to get kidney transplants than those without
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/sickle-cell-kidney-health-inequity
Sickle cell disease predominantly affects Black populations, and kidney transplants can save their lives
Bacteria can live without food for over 1000 days
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/bacteria-1000-days-food
Nearly three years without food drives innovative survival strategies
Researchers cultivate bee gut bacteria to create an insect probiotic
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/bee-bacteria-probiotic-insect-digestive
Efforts to save the bees may have gained some new microbial allies
Freshwater zebra mussels deal with microplastics surprisingly well
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/microplastics-freshwater-shellfish-environment
The invasive species may hold lessons for others
New device blends secrets of beetles and cacti to pull water from fog
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/water-biomimicry-cactus-beetle-desert
Engineers learned from unique surfaces in nature to create an aluminum foil that harvests water from the air
How binary stars’ planets are born
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/space-binary-star-exoplanet-formation-physics
A new mathematical simulation shows how gas and dust could swirl into planets in dual-star systems
Without synaptic "nibbling," mice develop behavioral problems
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/microglia-synaptic-pruning-mice-development
Mice without microglia grow up with an excess of inhibitory neurons
Tapering off opioids is treacherous for mental health
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/opioid-tapering-epidemic-sacklers
A large-scale study shows how the opioid epidemic has created downstream negative health outcomes
When a person "detransitions," pressure and threats — not regret — are most often the cause
▻https://massivesci.com/notes/detransition-trans-lgtbqia
In a study published in LGBT Health, researchers analyzed survey data of 27,715 trans and gender diverse US adults