How fur-bearing mammals meet their vitamin D needs
Sunlight threads through forests, deserts, and oceans, touching creatures with skin, scales, and fur. Yet many of those animals are…
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When Memory Lies: How False Memories Reshape Truth
You remember the moment clearly, or at least it feels that way. The texture of a sweater, the tilt of…
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The Fish Time Forgot: Coelacanths, Lost and Found Again
On a sweltering December morning in 1938, a young museum curator in South Africa tugged a blue-flecked giant from a…
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Inside tumors, microbes may shape diagnosis and treatment
Tiny passengers may be hitching a ride inside tumors, shaping how cancers grow, spread, and even respond to drugs. A…
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Older adults share more political misinformation
Older adults share more political misinformation than younger users, but not for the reasons many assume. New research suggests the…
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In a Sulfur Cave, 110,000 Spiders Share One Web
Deep beneath the borderlands of Albania and Greece, a living curtain of silk hangs in total darkness. Draped across the…
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Where soda’s bubbles hide: the science of carbonation
The hiss, the rush, the sparkle—open a bottle of seltzer and it feels like the drink springs to life. But…
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Two Common Amino Acids Linked to Lifespan, With Sex-Specific Clues
Two workhorse amino acids that help power the brain and body may also hold clues to how long we live….
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Correlation, Causation, and the Statistician Who Challenged Smoking
The five-word maxim that powers countless arguments—correlation does not imply causation—has a complicated origin story. Few recall that one of…
