#biology

I was watching a movie Sometime ago and they removed a heart for transplant and it was still beating inside the box. I thought it was just movie trick. So I checked small. It is not trick. Your heart really

The Cone Snail: The World's Most Venomous Gastropod The cone snail hunts fish. This is remarkable enough for a snail — but the mechanism by which it does so is extraordinary: it extends a flexible,

I came across a video of some elderly Chinese people on a bus covering their noses while sitting near a black woman. Naturally, the woman interpreted it as racism, and honestly, I can understand why, ive

The Tardigrade: Life at the Edge of the Possible In 2007, tardigrades became the first animals confirmed to survive direct exposure to open space. Attached to the outside of a satellite, they were exposed

The union of biology and machine. ![image.png]( A group of researchers attempted to connect brain tissue to computers in an experiment dubbed "Brainoware." At the heart of the system lay a brain organoid

Why You Cannot Kill Yourself By Holding Your Breath: I tried it when I was small. I was angry with my mother and I told her I will hold my breath and die. I held it, until my chest was paining me, and

I recently wrote about a few gull feathered friends that I found on the St. Lawrence river while visiting the jazzy city of Montreal. I could see that there were different species flying around, but I

Un análisis sobre escarabajos tortuga del género Agroiconota (Chrysomelidae - Cassidinae)

GOT BONES? I completely agree with this question. Where are the bones? For context... From here: And from here: Over the past 5 years, Canada has been turned upside down by its globalist elite controllers

The Pistol Shrimp's Snap: Physics at the Threshold The cavitation bubble produced by the pistol shrimp's snap reaches temperatures comparable to the surface of the Sun — roughly 8,000 Kelvin — for a duration

🤖🧬 Can AI Discover Things Humans Have Never Seen Before? One of the most fascinating developments in AI and science is happening in the field of biology. Anthropic has reported that its AI system, Claude,

The Clark's Nutcracker: Spatial Memory Beyond Compare Every autumn, a small bird in the mountains of western North America harvests seeds from whitebark pine trees, carries up to 95 seeds at a time in

I was washing clothes last Saturday and I stayed long inside water. When I finally brought my hands out, I just looked at my fingertips. They were all wrinkled like I have suddenly turned 80 years old.

Source: Wikipedia The Raccoon: Dexterity, Memory, and Urban Genius The raccoon's front paws contain nearly as many sensory nerve endings as a human hand, with over 80% of the area in the part of the brain

Fortunately, my “office” is a bit unusual. I work in the field, in various locations; sometimes I film politicians, but most often I film nature. Yesterday, while filming for a program about forest

Source: Wikipedia The Tarsier: The World's Largest Eyes Relative to Body Size If a human had eyes proportionally as large as a tarsier's, each eye would be roughly the size of a grapefruit. The tarsier's

Source: Wikipedia The Komodo Dragon: Venom, Strategy, and Apex Predation For decades, scientists believed the Komodo dragon killed through septicemia — bacterial infection from its bite, allowing it to

Janelia, Cambridge, the MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, and Google Research published a complete connectome of a male fruit fly this week in Cell. That means a list of every neuron they could find, where

The microbial expansion of the Moon. Human beings carry millions of microbes with us; in fact, we need them—especially in our stomachs—to survive and digest food. It is estimated that there are over a

Source: Wikipedia The Shark: Six Senses in the Dark Ocean The more remarkable story about sharks is not aggression — it is perception. The shark navigates and hunts through a sensory system so comprehensive