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We May Be Able To Grow Human Organs In Animals. Should We?
New ReviewSeventeen people in the US die /every day/ waiting for an organ transplant, usually a kidney. One approach is to grow extra kidneys in pigs, an idea known as xenotransplantation. We'll look at two recent milestones, as well as the...
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Are Sharks Really Older Than the North Star?
New ReviewIf you've spent enough time on the internet, you may have stumbled upon the fact that sharks are older than Polaris, aka the North Star. But are they really? It turns out the truth is a little more complicated.
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The Science of Mouth Taping
New ReviewHave you heard about this technique called mouth taping, and the claims it can cure everything from asthma to bad breath? We're here to cover what science and peer-reviewed research actually has to say about it.
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Can We Make A Vaccine Against Smoking?
New ReviewWe've all heard of a flu shot or a COVID vaccine, but there's a whole bunch of other health issues that researchers think we can use vaccines to prevent. From high cholesterol to substance abuse, researchers want our immune systems to...
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Ticks Can Spread An Allergy To… Red Meat?
New ReviewIt's been about ten years since scientists categorized alpha-gal syndrome, AKA the red meat allergy spread by ticks. But while researchers know more about it, there's a chance that doctors don't.
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Does Antimatter Fall?
New ReviewIn September 2023, a group of scientists from CERN published the first results from the ALPHA-g experiment, which seeks to figure out how antimatter responds to the force of gravity. Does it fall like regular matter? Does it not interact...
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This Simple Test Could Detect Half of All Cancers
New ReviewCancer is a complicated disease, and there's no simple blood test for early detection and screening to spot cancer in general. That might be changing thanks to LINE-1, a retrotransposon gene that doesn't do anything.
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What Makes This Plant Hair So Deadly?
New ReviewYou may be familiar with plants that have hair, like fuzzy peaches. But these plant take their 'dos to the next level, because their hairs are deadly.
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Can a Plug-In Really Improve Your Cat's Behavior?
New ReviewHave you ever seen cat pheromones, sometimes branded as Feliway, that promise to address problem behaviors like cat scratching, fighting, and stress? These products are based on real science. But do they work?
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Wolves Have Taken Over a Marine Ecosystem
New ReviewWolves are amazing hunters, so they tend to be apex predators wherever you find them...including one region in Alaska where these land-based predators sit atop a marine food web.
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Evolution Can't Explain Your Grandma
New ReviewThere's a really interesting idea in anthropology called the grandmother hypothesis, that basically says the reason we have grandmas has to do with what makes us unique as a species. But there's a huge problem with the idea that it's...
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The World’s Strongest Acid Might be Gentle Enough to Eat
New ReviewHearing the word "superacid" may evoke memories of that scene from Breaking Bad, but perhaps counterintuitively, the strongest acid on Earth wouldn't be able to destroy your bathroom.
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Is This About To Revolutionize Antidepressants?
New ReviewWouldn't it be nice if psychiatrists could stick patients with depression in an EEG and find out what antidepressant, like an SSRI, might be best for them, eliminating months of trial and error? A new study shows how that might be coming...
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This Element Doesn't Fit the Periodic Table
New ReviewOne of the most famous elements in the periodic table doesn't really belong anywhere chemists would like to put it.
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Psychiatrists Can't Agree About This New Disorder
New ReviewProlonged grief disorder recently debuted in both of the two manuals that clinicians use to diagnose psychological conditions. But the DSM and the ICD don't completely agree on what it is.
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What's Really Behind The Adderall Shortage?
New ReviewYou may have heard that there's an ongoing shortage of the medication Adderall. But there's a lot more going on here than you may expect, and the real culprit behind the shortage isn't what you might think.
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The Best Keyboard, According to Science
New ReviewPeople have strong opinions about which kind of keyboard is best, but science has settled the debate.
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How Do We Know How Old the Earth Is?
New ReviewIn the wake of World War 2, Clair Patterson embarked on a scientific quest to find out how old the Earth really is. His hard work paid off, but it also revealed a modern danger.
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This Crystal Is ELECTRIC
New ReviewThere's a few minerals that exhibit something called piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity, which mean that either heat or pressure can turn them electric. Here's a demo from the SciShow Rocks Box where you can see this for yourself - all...
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We Finally Made Synthetic Spider Silk
New ReviewThe ability to produce synthetic spider silk would give us bulletproof vests better than Kevlar, biocompatible sutures and wound dressings, and even space elevators. The problem is being able to make it in large amounts. One group may...
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Why Do We Rhyme?
New ReviewRhymes might seem frivolous, but there's scientific evidence for why we like them so much.
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Why Can’t We Have Unicorns?
New ReviewUnicorns may be mythical creatures, but they're very plausible-seeming ones. So why hasn't evolution gifted us with magical horses with horns? Let's take a look at the genetics and developmental biology of headgear in ruminants and other...
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Did Dinosaurs Have Belly Buttons?
New ReviewBelly buttons are, typically, a human's first scar. A sign that you used to feed through an umbilical cord that connected your tummy to a placenta. But it turns out you don't have to feed from a placenta to get a similar scar. It might...
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The Universe Runs on Vibes
New ReviewAs much as we like to talk about vibes, actual vibrations underlie pretty much everything about the universe. From the patterns of galaxies created by the Big Bang to the existence of subatomic particles, here's how the universe runs on...