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Nearly 40 years after the experiment began, researchers returned to the forest and found something extraordinary.

https://www.iflscience.com/researchers-visit-long-forgotten-experiment-in-australian-forest-39-years-after-it-began-and-find-something-astounding-84395

u/philipkbrayne — 17 hours ago

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The study drew criticism when it was originally published two years ago around claims that excess COVID-era deaths could be linked to vaccines.

https://www.iflscience.com/covid-excess-deaths-study-retracted-by-journal-for-misinformation-weeks-after-authors-us-senate-testimony-on-vaccines-84371

u/philipkbrayne — 1 day ago

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Astronomers discover a brand-new type of astrophysical object: A black hole star

news.mit.edu

u/NeptuneHarmonic — 3 days ago

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Is COVID becoming more of a summer disease?

https://www.iflscience.com/summer-surge-of-covid-on-us-west-coast-driven-by-mutated-cicada-variant-84384

u/philipkbrayne — 3 days ago

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Dolphins that hunt with sponges may show traces of culture in their gene activity, study finds

Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/381/1955/20250017/482594/A-culturally-transmitted-foraging-technique-in

In Shark Bay, Australia, the dolphins put marine sponges over their snouts while feeling along the seafloor for fish. The habit may go hand in hand with subtle biological differences. What's happening?

Dolphins that engage in "sponging" carry epigenomic signatures distinct from those seen in other dolphins in the same population, according to ScienceAlert, which reported on a new analysis of Shark Bay's Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins.

The epigenome is the set of reversible chemical marks that can affect gene activity without changing the DNA sequence itself !

https://www.sciencealert.com/some-dolphins-use-tools-and-it-does-something-unique-to-their-genes

yahoo.com

u/ADragonFromTheAbyss — 10 days ago