Biology

How You Can Brew Beer In Your Own Digestive Tract

Imagine: your wife begins to think you’re a closet alcoholic, so she purchases a breathalyzer to test your blood alcohol content (BAC) throughout the day. Your doctors concur with her assessment, thinking you’re sneaking off into dark corners to imbibe without the judging eyes of the world to condemn you. The only problem, you really…

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The mutant peacock that baffled London has made it home

Why did the white mutant peacock cross the road? This question was a source of great discussion and consternation in the Ilford area of Greater London, where a mutant white peacock was wandering across the street near the Newbury Park station. The mutant — who appears to be an albino, but is actually a cross…

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How did crows develop a social safety net?

A lot of crows come to my backyard looking for peanuts, but this group of five was different. They were scrappy, with tattered white bits of down sticking out from between their black feathers. One of them made a cry more like a bleat than your typical caw caw! And then I discovered them doing…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Naked mole rats are even freakier than we thought

Naked mole rats are the superheroes of the animal kingdom. They live nine times longer than other rodents and they’re essentially immune to cancer. And now scientists think their extreme longevity can be attributed to their exceptionally strange ribosomes. https://gizmodo.com/9-animals-that-would-make-great-superheroes-773868690 https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-figured-out-why-naked-mole-rats-don-t-g-516957485 Ribosomes are large and complex molecular machines that are found inside all living cells.…

io9 George Dvorsky

Sperm Wars Can Create New Species

Take a look at the battle unfolding in this remarkable image. It shows the sperm from two related fruit fly species competing inside a reproductive tract. It’s an evolutionary struggle that, as scientists are now learning, often leads to the introduction of entirely new species. Sexual competition in the animal kingdom is a fierce and…

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Engineers Have Invented a Programming Language to Build DNA

Forget Python and Java. Ruby? Get outta here. If you’re gonna learn to write code, you better make it useful—so why not one that builds DNA when you run it? A team of researchers from the University of Washington has developed a programming language that allows them to code a set of instructions to build…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How DNA testing can rip families apart — and bring them together

Two women from shattered homes have been using DNA tests to discover why they have always felt like outsiders. They find each other on a social network for people who want to compare their genomes — and they get a match. Are they related? Did their parents have an affair? New DNA services promise to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Why is this man growing a nose on his forehead?

Yes, this man actually has a nose growing on his forehead. It’s part of a cutting-edge transplant procedure, and doctors will eventually replace his damaged nose with the new, healthy organ. Image via Reuters According to Reuters: A new nose, grown by surgeons on Xiaolian’s forehead, is pictured before being transplanted to replace the original…

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This ancient fish may have been the first animal to have a face

Meet Entelognathus primordialis, a 419 million-year-old carnivorous fish whose fossil is providing the earliest known evidence of basic facial bone structures in an animal. Oh, and you’re probably descended from it. Prior to this discovery, all fossils from this particular geological era — the Silurian period — featured sea creatures without a face — jawless…

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How a children’s cartoon destroyed Japanese agriculture

Back in the 1970s, there was a popular anime on TV in Japan called Araiguma Rasukaru, about a kid and his adorable racoon sidekick. Based on the popular Disney movie Rascal, it was a huge hit. And it led to one of the worst invasive species events on the island in recent history. Over at…

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18 killed in deadly hornet attacks in Chinese city

It sounds like the tagline for a really bad apocalypse movie, but Chinese newspapers are reporting that deadly hornet attacks are on the rise in the city of Ankang, in Shaanxi province. 18 have died, and many have suffered severe injuries from hundreds of stings. According to The Guardian: The insects‘ highly toxic stings can…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Why can farts be set alight?

You know you’ve always wondered why farting on a lighter causes a brief burst of flame. Believe it or not, there is rarely any methane in farts, and so methane is not what’s burning when farts are ignited. Find out what does, and why some farts ignite and others don’t. It’s a commonly-held belief that…

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Why the Cuckoo Finch Is Called a Brood Parasite

When you think about parasites, usually one of the “mind-controlling” types comes to mind, or maybe the chestbursters from the Alien franchise. But in the animal kingdom, particularly among birds, there’s another kind: the brood parasite. https://gizmodo.com/12-real-parasites-that-control-the-lives-of-their-hosts-461313366 https://kotaku.com/even-the-making-of-video-for-the-aliens-chestburster-is-1269893629 Image: Cuckoo finch chick sitting in the nest of its foster parents. Courtesy of Claire Spottiswoode. Cuckoo…

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Delusional Scientist Has Incredible List of Collaboration Requirements

Spurred by the racist, sexist, and aggressively witless dating criteria of one 39-year-old Austinite, analytical chemist Dr. Rubidium has taken this man-child’s Incredible List of Dating Requirements and replaced it with the Incredible List of Collaboration Requirements of one delusional scientist. The results are pretty damn perfect. https://jezebel.com/delusional-man-child-has-most-incredible-list-of-dating-1382052948 The criterial foundations for a fair number…

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Chromosomes Actually Look Like an Insane Ball of Spaghetti

Remember back in high school biology class when you had to sketch the structure of a cell? Chromosomes were always fun because you know they’d be these smooth X’s stuffed with DNA. Well, I hate to break it to you, but science doesn’t actually work like that. Researchers from the Babraham Institute and the University…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Meet the Deadliest Venomous Animals in the World

Venom can turn a seemingly weak and tiny creature into a feared killer. But what, exactly, does it mean for an animal to be “venomous”? And which venomous species are the most deadly to humans? Here’s what we know. Poisonous ≠ Venomous Though the two terms are often used interchangeably, “venom” is not the same…

io9 Joseph Bennington-Castro

Think you can walk in a straight line, blindfolded? Guess again.

Here’s a fun experiment to try next time you find yourself in an open field. Close your eyes (or wear a blindfold) and set off walking, taking care to walk in as straight a line as possible. Have a buddy monitor your route (and warn you of obstacles). Sounds simple enough, right? Turns out it’s…

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The perfect demonstration of an incredible feature of chicken anatomy

Chickens are like nature’s steady-cams*. They posses a remarkable ability to keep their heads stable even as their bodies move around. And it all has to do with their eyes. The anatomic feature is demonstrated to great effect in this newly released Mercedes commercial**, which is presumably for some stability feature? We’re not really sure.…

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A fascinating difference between pet dogs and tame wolves

If you could raise a wolf in your home, would it grow up to be any different from a typical pet dog? In a rare experiment with tame wolves, a Hungarian scientist tried to answer this question — and the results hinted at one major difference between dogs and wolves. https://gizmodo.com/why-everything-you-know-about-wolf-packs-is-wrong-502754629 Photo by Michael Cummings…

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Sexy skeleton models are easily the weirdest thing you’ll see today

Paleobiologist Victoria Herridge stumbled upon this ridiculous photo while conducting a Google image search for an elephant skull. “I am dying,” she later tweeted. “This is both depressing & incredibly funny.” These photos comes via the website for “BJ Winslow Prop Rentals and Fabrication,” a whimsically macabre prop shop in Sun Valley, CA, that hews…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How You Can Brew Beer In Your Own Digestive Tract

The mutant peacock that baffled London has made it home

How did crows develop a social safety net?

Naked mole rats are even freakier than we thought

Sperm Wars Can Create New Species

Engineers Have Invented a Programming Language to Build DNA

How DNA testing can rip families apart — and bring them together

Why is this man growing a nose on his forehead?

This ancient fish may have been the first animal to have a face

How a children’s cartoon destroyed Japanese agriculture

18 killed in deadly hornet attacks in Chinese city

Why can farts be set alight?

Why the Cuckoo Finch Is Called a Brood Parasite

Delusional Scientist Has Incredible List of Collaboration Requirements

Chromosomes Actually Look Like an Insane Ball of Spaghetti

Meet the Deadliest Venomous Animals in the World

Think you can walk in a straight line, blindfolded? Guess again.

The perfect demonstration of an incredible feature of chicken anatomy

A fascinating difference between pet dogs and tame wolves

Sexy skeleton models are easily the weirdest thing you’ll see today

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