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Medical Disclaimer: We cannot provide medical diagnoses here

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Why do watermelons get sweeter after being in refrigerator 24 hrs.

  • gary350
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Tick-borne diseases - recent increases in cases

  • Astronuc
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Electrostatic scaling laws across the proteome — need expert feedback

  • Planobilly
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Quinoline tag helps vancomycin breach gram-negative defenses (C&EN)

  • Astronuc
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Are we ready for SARS-Cov-3?

  • Astronuc
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Bio-Blasts from the Past

  • BillTre
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Seeing the word hypercholesterolemia I thought Americans (sorry)

  • sbrothy
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Hantavirus outbreak aboard ship MV Hondius; virus present in Argentina

  • Astronuc
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About Snapping Turtles

  • .Scott
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Clues to Homing Pigeon Navigation Mechanism

  • BillTre
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Sepsis is often misdiagnosed, or just missed. That may change soon.

  • Astronuc
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Great Cambrian Fossils

  • BillTre
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New Drugs Penetrate Deep Into the Brain to Suppress Cravings

  • sbrothy
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Chestnut Trees Coming Back?

  • BillTre
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Can Dogs Talk Using Buttons?

  • BillTre
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Solar radiation exposure

  • Frabjous
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Depleting Glycogen storage before fat burning, or not?

  • Julian_M
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Humans evolved faster after farming, wheels and metal working arose

  • BillTre
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My glasses are giving me a neck cramp

  • DaveC426913
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Plastic Electric Kettle and Microplastic release

  • Julian_M
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Does memory follow classical or quantum methods?

  • grzz
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Molds in Front Loading Washing Machine

  • Julian_M
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Are these rabbit pellets???

  • DaveC426913
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4 of 4 models of automated blood pressure cuffs fail to read my BP

  • .Scott
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An open access review of the Asgard Archaea

  • BillTre
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Valsalva and Eustachian tube

  • Kiv
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Kitten raising advice

  • DaveC426913
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Viral (RNA and DNA) polymerases, inhibitors and antiviral drugs

  • Astronuc
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And They Names it Evo — an AI trained on trillions of bases

  • jedishrfu
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What causes the asymmetry in a symmetrically developing organism?

  • DaveC426913
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New cases of Nipah virus

  • Astronuc
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Did they discover another descendant of homo erectus?

  • fresh_42
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Don't waste your money on organic food

  • BWV
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Incredible Difference in Ant Sizes

  • Hornbein
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A New Niche for Life at Low G

  • BillTre
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Quiz time: What animal?

  • DaveC426913
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There are people in biology who really do math

  • BillTre
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Wire Black Coral helix asymmetry

  • Hill
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Is Drinking Hot Tea from Plastic Cups Unsafe Due to Chemical Leaching?

  • Spathi
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What is alfalfa used for?

  • sevensages
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H3N2 Influenza A variant in 2025-2026 more virulent

  • Astronuc
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King tides are no joke

  • Janus
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Influenza A H5, an avian flu, first time in a human

  • Astronuc
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Magnetoreception in Animals

  • BillTre
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Are Conventional Turkey Thawing Instructions Backwards?

  • NTL2009
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PFAS and Power Lines Cause Cancer?

  • russ_watters
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Mold in Plastic Water Bottles? What does it eat?

  • Algr
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Who knows if Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome is real or not?

  • symbolipoint
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Iceland has found its first mosquitoes

  • jtbell
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Why Do Fathers Experience Premature Graying?

  • dlgoff
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Sukunaarchaeum Mirabile - smallest archaeal genome

  • 256bits
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Medical Age and carotid artery stenosis

  • LightningInAJar
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Rare Earth Magnets costs NZ teen part of his bowel

  • DaveC426913
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Medical New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours

  • Borg
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Photorhabdus luminescens & "Angel's Glow"

  • Astronuc
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Australian Funnel-web spiders and delta-hexatoxin (aka Versutoxin)

  • Astronuc
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Coccidioidomycosis, deadly fungal disease, no effective cure

  • Astronuc
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RIP Jane Goodall (91), primatologist and conservationist

  • Astronuc
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COVID Here comes COVID-19 version BA.2, BA.4, BA.5,...

  • Tom.G
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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

  • 256bits
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Chagas disease now established in US

  • Astronuc
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Flesh-eating New World Screwworm re-occurrence in US

  • Astronuc
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Here is a weird moth larva

  • BillTre
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Encephalitis lethargica, between 1915 and 1926; cause unknown

  • Astronuc
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I need help understanding this quote about recent Natural Selection

  • sevensages
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Fermentation using mixed legume and grain feedstock

  • ldanielrosa
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Is MRSA as Dangerous as It Seems and How Can You Get Proper Testing?

  • OmCheeto
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Rare case of pneumonic plague in US - Arizona

  • Astronuc
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Does anaesthetic unconsciousness = restorative sleep?

  • DaveC426913
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On more exercise to burn calories

  • .Scott
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Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy

  • Astronuc
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One of my Favorite Parasites

  • BillTre
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Can You Become Immune to Mosquito Bites?

  • .Scott
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Too much fluoride might lower IQ in kids?

  • Frabjous
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Hair's influence on the brain

  • Frabjous
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Nutritional Quality of Foods

  • 256bits
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Why Don't Insulin Needles "Damage" You or Hurt When Poking Yourself?

  • kyphysics
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Nerve regrowth after damage

  • DaveC426913
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The Human Papilloma vaccination to suppress cervical cancer

  • sophiecentaur
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Medical Are there theories of medicine that are under the umbrella of Physical Sciences?

  • robotkid786
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How Did Bird Flu Decimate 95% of Animals at Major Arizona Farm?

  • 256bits
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Please explain Diffusion in Neuroscience to me like I'm 5 years old

  • Zeus2002
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Medical Hydrogen water, any good?

  • Arjan82
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Star Trek Tricorders detected lifeforms--> Life emits light

  • jedishrfu
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Medical Saccharin, the New Antibiotic

  • gleem
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How Does Asymmetric Mitosis Influence Tissue Formation and Morphogenesis?

  • 256bits
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Medical Innovative ideas and technologies to help folks with disabilities

  • berkeman
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[Cognitive science] Distance effects in non-numerical sequences?

  • somegrue
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Antonine Plague - small pox + measles, or hemorrhagic virus/bacterium?

  • Astronuc
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How much kicking power would a horse lose with human feet instead of hooves?

  • Username2025
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Anyone know what is specific activity? (enzymes)

  • pieruvate
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Are you concerned about toxic chemicals in plastic food packaging?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Woolite Contamination Recalls 2023 and 2025

  • Cepacia
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