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Nov 22, 2024 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Tim Vernimmen
Few people are fond of earwigs, with their menacing abdominal pincers—whether they’re skittering across your floor, getting comfy in the folds of your camping tent or minding their own business. Scientists, too, have given them short shrift, compared with the seemingly endless attention they have lavished on social insects like ants and bees. Yet there are a handful of exceptions.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Tim Vernimmen
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
arstechnica.com | Tim Vernimmen
She ain’t scary, she’s my mother Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism)—earwigs have a lot going for them. Few people are fond of earwigs, with their menacing abdominal pincers—whether they’re skittering across your floor, getting comfy in the folds of your camping tent, or minding their own business.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
popsci.com | Tim Vernimmen
An earwig with eggs.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Tim Vernimmen
Few people are fond of earwigs, with their menacing abdominal pincers — whether they’re skittering across your floor, getting comfy in the folds of your camping tent or minding their own business. Scientists, too, have given them short shrift, compared with the seemingly endless attention they have lavished on social insects like ants and bees. Yet there are a handful of exceptions.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Tim Vernimmen
A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant. Paleontologist Federico Agnolín and his colleagues discovered the fossil by accident. The team had been scouring the same quarry at Estancia La Matilde in the Santa Cruz province of Argentina for dinosaurs.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
popsci.com | Tim Vernimmen
A ribosome in action. As messenger RNA passes through the ribosome (center left), other RNA molecules (bottom left) bring in amino acids that match the instructions in the mRNA. These amino acids are then joined together into a new protein (top right). But might these trusty little protein-making workhorses come in more than one flavor? CREDIT: NICOLLE R.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
fhicommunications.com | Tim Vernimmen
Unusual variations in the cellular protein factory can skew development, help cancer spread and more. But ribosome variety may also play biological roles, scientists say. In the 1940s, scientists at the recently established National Cancer Institute were trying to breed mice that could inform our understanding of cancer, either because they predictably developed certain cancers or were surprisingly resistant.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
knowablemagazine.org | Tim Vernimmen
In the 1940s, scientists at the recently established National Cancer Institute were trying to breed mice that could inform our understanding of cancer, either because they predictably developed certain cancers or were surprisingly resistant. The team spotted a peculiar litter in which some baby mice had short, kinked tails and misplaced ribs growing out of their neck bones.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Tim Vernimmen
