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A Massive Microbiome Paper Just Got Retracted
Can unique bacterial signatures help predict if you have…
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The Impact of Yellowstone’s Wolves May Be Overrated
They probably didn’t change the path of the river.
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Jun 27
Do Cuts Heal Faster When Covered?
The advice has changed over the years.
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Why It’s Almost Impossible to Test For Prions
Mad cow disease is incurable and difficult to detect.
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Jun 20
Can Drinking Rain Water Make You Sick?
Despite childhood myths, it’s not sterile at all
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Musings on Buffalo Fish, and Other Uses of “Buffalo”
The fish named by an eccentric French genius, and…
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Jun 6
For Millions of Years, Earth Was Dominated by a Single Vertebrate Genus
It’s not humans. How a…
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I’m Still Drinking Diet Coke
Putting the fear of artificial sweeteners into much-needed context.
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The Truth Behind the Myth of Boiling Frogs
Sometimes we’ll put up with anything. Sometimes it takes…
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Parachute Science — A Dirty Dark Side of Research
Colonialism has never fully gone away.
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