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2 weeks ago
Cryptocurrency

Snore of Value: Bitcoin's Sleepwalk Towards Stasis

Evolution is a reactive process and can lead to extinction if rapid changes occur. [ more ]
Inverse
1 day ago
OMG science

How Wasps Make Use of Biological Weapons To Conquer Their Prey

Parasitic wasps have domesticated viruses to use as biological weapons against their insect hosts. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
2 months ago
OMG science

For Some Mammals, Large Adult Daughters, Not Sons, Are the Norm

Female elephant seals can be significantly smaller than males due to sexual size dimorphism.
Research challenges the notion that male mammals are always larger, highlighting the need for more studies on mating systems and evolutionary forces. [ more ]
Nature
2 months ago
OMG science

Daily briefing: How humans lost their tails

Primates with tails lack a specific DNA insertion found in humans and other apes.
Dwarf galaxies played a crucial role in clearing the cosmic fog after the Big Bang. [ more ]
Nature
1 month ago
Angular

Fossils document evolutionary changes of jaw joint to mammalian middle ear - Nature

Fossils from Jurassic mammals show transition in middle ear evolution from load-bearing to exclusively auditory function.
Evidence of gradual loss of load-bearing function in articular-quadrate jaw joint in early mammaliaforms. [ more ]
knowablemagazine.org
3 months ago
Science

New Linguistics Technique Could Reveal Who Spoke the First Indo-European Languages

Indo-European languages share a common origin traced back thousands of years.
A new analysis suggests the origin of the Indo-European language may have been with a community of farmers in Anatolia, modern-day Turkey. [ more ]
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