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Volunteers are swallowing E. coli bacteria pills to help medicine
Somewhere in Baltimore, volunteers are gulping capsules filled with GMOs—gene-modified E. coli bacteria, to be precise.Synlogic of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company behind the unusual study, is...
View ArticleWhy our obsession with baby-like features is making our pets suffer
Business Insider spoke with John Bradshaw, anthrozoologist and author of "The Animals Among Us," about how humans are breeding cats and dogs to look like babies and how it is making them suffer.Mr...
View ArticleThis is how much a dog can understand when you talk to it
Business Insider spoke with John Bradshaw, anthrozoologist and author of "The Animals Among Us," about how much dogs understand when you communicate with them.Mr Bradshaw said; "Dogs are very...
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The Nobel Prize in medicine explains how animals, humans, and plants are all...
Our internal clocks determine nearly every biological process in our bodies, from sleeping, to eating, to our blood pressure.The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017 has just been awarded to...
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3 scientists just won the Nobel Prize for discovering how body clocks are...
Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm."Your...
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There’s new evidence that life on Earth began with meteorites crashing into...
Charles Darwin once theorized that the origin of life — known as abiogenesis — could have happened as precursor compounds came together in "warm little ponds."A new study provides evidence for that...
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An eccentric English philosopher's decomposing severed head is on display at...
Jeremy Bentham died in 1832.Unlike most people, however, the English philosopher decided on a rather unusual posthumous operation.Bentham made instructions in his will, aged just 21, for him to be...
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The Nobel prize in chemistry goes to scientists who developed a way to see...
Three researchers who developed a way to see the basic molecules of life in three dimensions won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.Jacques...
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These award-winning microscope photos reveal a bizarre universe just out of...
A strange and unseen world exists at our fingertips, and only microscopes have the power to bring this hidden dimension into view.To honor the beauty and scientific importance of microscopic...
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Here's what the images that just won the Nobel prize in chemistry look like...
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson were awarded the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing cryo-electron microscopy.The technique allows researchers to see the...
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Here's the science behind why some people love animals and others couldn’t...
The recent popularity of “designer” dogs, cats, micro-pigs and other pets may seem to suggest that pet keeping is no more than a fad. Indeed, it is often assumed that pets are a Western affectation, a...
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We share 80 million bacteria when we kiss each other — here's why we enjoy it...
Kissing is one of our favourite disgusting activities.Looking at it objectively, sharing saliva with someone else is a pretty gross thing to do. In fact, we transfer approximately 80 million bacteria...
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Spray this invisible, edible coating on produce and it could last five times...
From the time a farmer harvests strawberries or green beans, they will last — at best — three weeks before they start to rot. It usually takes a week or two for the food to reach the grocery store and...
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Stanford researchers built a 'gaydar' for photos — and it reveals something...
Facial recognition technology may catch a lot more in a photo than a winning smile or sparkling eyes.Psychologist Michal Kosinski and his colleague Yilun Wang at the Stanford Graduate School of...
View ArticleScientists turned the skin of mice green — here's why
(REUTERS) British scientists are testing cutting edge gene editing techniques in mice, by inserting a jelly fish gene that makes their skin green.The research uses CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing tool that...
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A Yale psychologist's simple thought experiment temporarily turned...
Social scientists say conservative political views can be fueled by fear.A new study suggests that making people feel safe from harm can change their stance on hot-button social issues.The new research...
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These recently discovered fossilized teeth could rewrite human history
Human teeth fossils found in Germany may shake up our understanding of human evolution and migration.The fossils place human ancestors in Europe millions of years before paleontologists believed a...
View ArticleHumans are just starting to understand this nearly invincible creature — and...
Scientists are just starting to understand the tardigrade. It can survive boiling water, outer space, and extreme radiation. Following is a transcript of the video.This funny looking little guy can...
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Scientists have engineered a reduced-fat pig with 24% less body fat
Researchers in Beijing found a way to engineer pigs that helps them stay warm and lean.After 6 months, test litters weighed in with 24% less body fat than regular pigs. The researchers say the gene...
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NASA sent one identical twin brother to space for a year and studied how it...
When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly stood up last March after spending a year in space, he was two inches taller.Kelly is part of a study NASA is conducting to assess how the human body changes as a result...
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