🧪 Olfactory adaptation: your own farts don't stink 📖

👉 ‎ Your nose responds much less strongly to smells that linger for a while and therefore seem "familiar." This phenomenon is called olfactory adaptation and pre...

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🧪 Ancient microbes turn out to be pretty good crawlers

👉 ‎ Asgard archaea can change shape and crawl across surfaces using long protrusions. Their movement is probably powered by an ancient form of the actin cytoske...

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🧪 Zombie cells pile up as we age

👉 ‎ As we age, so-called zombie cells accumulate in our bodies. That was already known, but the cause wasn't. Now it appears that a less active recycling system disrupts their natura...

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🧪 Dozens of new animals discovered on the seafloor!

👉 ‎ Dozens of new marine animals and even five new genera have been discovered off the coast of Argentina. They live in a deep canyon with an incredibly rich ecosy...

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🧪 WASH YOUR HANDS!!1! 📖

👉 ‎ After every trip to the bathroom, invisible pathogens can remain on your skin. Soap is great at loosening grease, dirt and microorganisms from your skin. And friction boosts that process...

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🚀 Habitable planet pops up around scorching-hot star

👉 ‎ Astronomers may have found (disclaimer!) a planet orbiting a very hot star. The candidate also happens to be in a region where liquid water could exist… in ot...

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🧪 New lizard discovered high in Peruvian Andes

👉 ‎ A completely new species of lizard has been discovered high in the Peruvian Andes. The animal lives among rocks and plants at an altitude of almost 5,000 meters. DN...

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🧪 Animals turn out to be much older than thought

👉 ‎ Animals may have emerged as early as 750 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Mongolian microfossils show that "the absence of animal fossils...

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What’s your view on #PopSci?

#PopulairScience is everywhere and can be seen both a blessing and a curse. It’s an important entertaining form of scientific outreach 🧬🪩, but we have to ensure that science facts are distinguished from science fiction 🧪🔬Interesting read👇

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