Tag: nature
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How eggs are made
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Measles Makes Your Immune System Forget
Enter “immune amnesia”, a mysterious phenomenon that’s been with us for millennia, though it was only discovered in 2012. Essentially, when you’re infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it’s ever encountered before — every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The…
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How Evolution works
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Meat
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Planktonium
The wondrous (tiny) world of plankton. Phytoplankton (small plant-like cells) are producing half of all oxygen on earth by photosynthesis, like plants and trees do on land. Zooplankton are forming the base of the food chain of aquatic life. Plankton are also playing an important part in the global carbon cycle. The plankton are threatened…
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The History and Future of Everything — Time
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Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings
Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection in UK law following an LSE report which demonstrates that there is strong scientific evidence that these animals have the capacity to experience pain, distress or harm. The UK government has today confirmed that the scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill will be extended to…
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Ocean Plastic
Seeing it summarised like this, is quite depressing. Definitely time for humanity to act, ban one-use anything, stop dumping trash left and right, or exporting it to poor countries. There’s some hope with ongoing projects that attempt to catch (bigger) plastic before they reach the oceans, or fish it out when floating in patches —…
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River Trash Interceptors
