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Grandchildren of mice fed artificial sweeteners showed altered glucose tolerance and shifts in gut microbiome composition -- even though those grandchildren never consumed the sweeteners themselves. The finding, reported by StudyFinds, suggests that ...

Someone walked out of a laboratory in Belém, Brazil, with 709 vials of dangerous viruses -- including samples of Eastern equine encephalitis and oropouche, both of which can cause severe or fatal illness in humans. BSL-3, or biosafety level 3, is ...

Albert Hofmann calculated that one teaspoon of LSD could affect 50,000 people. He arrived at that figure after accidentally absorbing a trace amount through his skin at the Sandoz laboratory in Basel on April 16, 1943 -- 83 years ago today. -- Read ...

Here's a visual illusion that catches the brain in the act of making up color. Arrange a set of black spokes radiating from a center, then recolor short pieces of each spoke to red or blue, positioning them so they'd trace an invisible circle. --

Once or twice a year, on reefs across Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Timor-Leste, and other islands of the southwestern Pacific, the palolo worm tears itself in half. The front portion stays put in the coral rubble where the worm normally hides. The back end ...

With 8 billion people on Earth, mathematician Kevin Burke calculates that any one person's chances of stumbling across a century-old message in a bottle are about 1 in 8 million. The calculation takes just two steps, as Burke explains in The ...

According to a job listing on Japanese recruitment site HRMOS, the Pokémon Company is hiring an ecologist, possibly to work on Pokémon Pokopia. The job calls for a PhD in science, engineering, or agriculture, and experience in research related to ...

Helium boils at 4.2 kelvin -- colder than anything else on the periodic table. Superconducting magnets in MRI machines must be kept below 9.2 kelvin, and liquid helium is the only practical coolant to achieve this. (Liquid hydrogen boils at 20 kelvin ...

Between 2018 and 2024, one faction of chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park killed 7 adult males and 17 infants from a rival group. Fourteen more adult males vanished -- bodies never recovered. The study, published in Science and led by Aaron ...

After more than a century of humans doing their absolute best to wipe them out, California condors in Northern California may finally be attempting the radical act of reproducing in the wild again. The team hasn't visually confirmed the existence of ...