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With the availability of Arctic Apples around the corner,
there are a lot of questions swirling about how the browning is suppressed when
the apple is exposed to air. The
browning process has great implications for the value of fruits and fruit
products. This natural discoloration
leads to less>
What is the origin of bird digits? This question has caused a lot of head-scratching and beard-stroking in evolutionary biologists. Paleontological evidence suggests that the three digits in birds develop from digit position 1, 2 and 3 (thumb, index and middle finger). Embryological evidence points towards digits>
While most people understand the dangers of flushing toxic chemicals into the ecosystem through municipal sewer systems, one potentially devastating threat to wild fish populations comes from an unlikely source: estrogen.
After an exhaustive seven-year research effort, Canadian biologists found that miniscule amounts>
A group of biologists have discovered seven previously unknown species of mammals on Luzon Island in the Philippines. All of the species are forest mice, and each species lives only in a small part of Luzon. Two of the new species live only in the Zambales Mountains (on Mt. Tapulao), two live only>
Credit: L. Sabetelli / Wellcome, CC BYThe Black Death struck Europe in 1347, killing 30-50% of the European population in six violent years. It wasn’t a one-off epidemic: it signaled the start of the second plague pandemic in Europe that lasted for hundreds of years and only slowly disappeared from the continent>
Fibromyalgia is the term for a poorly-understood condition where people experience pain and fatigue while moving but have no testable inflammation or damage. Because fatigue is a non-specific symptom, fibromyalgia becomes a 'diagnosis of exclusion', where pain persists but testable conditions are ruled out. It is>
