Tag: biology

How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick?

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For a pathogen to make us sick, it must overcome a lot. First it has...

Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto...

In Defense of the Rat

Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging rats. She couldn’t just...

Indonesia’s EV ambitions could help boost investments in the rest of Southeast Asia

Korean automobile manufacturer Kia displays the electric vehicle "EV6 GT-Line" during the 30th Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show in Tangerang on August 10, 2023.Yasuyoshi...

The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there...

Butterflies can remember where things are over sizeable spaces

Heliconius butterflies are capable of spatial learning, scientists have discovered. The results provide the first experimental evidence of spatial learning in any butterfly or moth...

‘Embryo Models’ Challenge the Legal, Ethical, and Biological Concepts of an ‘Embryo’

Meanwhile, Hanna’s team in Israel was growing mouse embryo models in a similar way, as they described in a paper in Cell that was...

Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows?

Other animals on the farm, too, may be vulnerable to wildfire smoke. Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in...

A Brain Chemical Helps Neurons Know When to Start a Movement

By washing through the brain, neuromodulators “allow you to govern the excitability of a large region of the brain more or less in the...

Researchers Want to Create ‘Universal Donor’ Lungs

Increasing the number of universal donors, Cypel hoped, would make more lungs available to more people, and make the process more equitable. “Today we...

A Twist on Stem Cell Transplants Could Help Blood Cancer Patients

“It’s exciting that we could do it,” says Shlomchik.“This is an important first step,” agrees Nelson Chao, chief of the division of Hematological Malignancies...

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