Japan built a ‘human refrigerator’ that cools your body in just 5 minutes, and it could transform how workers beat extreme heat
Japan's summers have grown severe enough that the government recently coined new terminology just to describe days when temperatures climb...
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Weight Loss: Cryolipolysis and Fat-Burning Molecules
Cryolipolysis - Freezing Fat Away Cryolipolysis, also known as "fat freezing," is a non-invasive procedure that eliminates stubborn fat...
Aggression Compensates for Short Eyestalks in Stalk-Eyed Flies
If this is such a terrible mutation, why hasn't it been bred out by generations of sexual selection? In a...
Measles (Morbilli) Explained: Causes and Signs
Morbilli is an exanthematic disease caused by the measles virus, genus Morbillivirus, a member of the Paramyxoviridae, a family of...
Are Hippos Danger To Humans
When we think of dangerous animals, our minds might gravitate toward venomous snakes, fierce wolves or massive bears. However, one...
The Secret Behind Eye Color Revealed
Brown is the color of eye prevalent worldwide by a huge margin. It is, in fact, green is considered to...
What Makes Birds of Paradise the Most Extraordinary Birds on Earth?
The birds-of-paradise family boasts around 45 species spread across 17 unique genera. Each genus is characterized by shared traits and...
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Local alignment-finding substrings of high similarity
Sequence comparison is one of the fundamental problems in computational biology and string algorithms. While global alignment compares two strings...
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AI Designs Better CRISPR Gene Editors Than Nature, Doudna Team Reports
Researchers at UC Berkeley used artificial intelligence to design new versions of a small CRISPR enzyme called TnpB. Several of...
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Fick Method Underestimates Heart Problems in Children After Heart Transplant, Study Finds
Researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago found poor agreement between two common methods of measuring...
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Pig Semen-Derived Exosomes Deliver Cancer Treatment to Mouse Retinas via Eye Drops
A research team in China has engineered eye drops using exosomes extracted from pig semen to deliver a targeted drug...
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Childhood Trauma Leaves Distinct Marks on Fathers’ Sperm, Study Shows
About one in five adults in Europe and the United States grew up with some form of childhood maltreatment and ...
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