You share more than just your living space with your partner.
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Couples who live together share many things: Bedrooms, bathrooms, food, and even bacteria. After analyzing skin microbiomes from cohabitating couples, microbial ecologists at the University...
This image shows a patient with an eczema-like skin rash behind the knees as a result of primary immunodeficiency.
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Our skin plays host to millions of beneficial and potentially disease-causing microorganisms; however, whether our immune...
The development of eye freckles correlated with increasing age, lifetime number of sunburns and a history of severe sunburns resulting in blisters, report researchers.
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In a study well-timed for summer, vision scientists have found that...
This is a view of the Mediano anticline, strata dipping to the left into the lake waters. This large-scale fold structure is a witness of ancient deformation associated with the rise of the Pyrenees in the middle Eocene, 45...
A magnetic folding robot arm can grasp and bend thanks to its pattern of origami-inspired folds and a wireless electromagnetic field.
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
The traditional Japanese art of origami transforms a simple sheet of paper into complex,...
Besides affecting weight, scientists believe the timing of food consumption affects one's circadian rhythms and may be the route by which dietary habits impact lifespan.
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A new high-precision feeding system for lab mice reinforces the idea...
This is a female specimen of the new shrimp species Alpheus margaritae.
Credit: Dr. José Salgado-Barragán CC-BY 4.0
Although the Santa María-La Reforma lagoon complex in the Gulf of California is one of the most important areas for shrimp fishery, little...
Bat flying at night. Night-time flights are more elaborate than daytime ones. Bats continuously rise and dip in curved flight trajectories, using large movements to propel themselves.
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New research,...
The mating songs of katydids, a greener, longer-legged cousin of crickets, have different acoustical characteristics that attract different species of bats.
Credit: Alex Lang
A new eavesdropping study of bats and katydids provides evidence that sensory differences can influence the "evolutionary...
This is a dingo in the Australian bush. A new study shows the poisoning of dingoes has a deleterious effect on small native mammals such as marsupial mice, bandicoots and native rodents.
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Poisoning of dingoes -- the top...
American bullfrog at the E.E. Wilson Wildlife Management Area in the Willamette Valley.
Credit: Photo by Lynn Ketchum, OSU
When exposed to potential predators as an embryo, the invasive American bullfrog becomes harder to kill when it becomes a tadpole, according...
