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Opinion | They Feel Bugs Inside Them. Doctors Don’t Know Why.

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Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers Temnothorax kinomurai, a parasitic ant species found in Japan, reproduces asexually and all of its young develop into queens that try to take over other ants’ colonies

Today in ants doing weird things: queens all the way down 🐜👑https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516695-everyones-a-queen-the-ant-species-with-no-males-or-workers/

Unexplored deep-water worlds in Caribbean revealed for the first time Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

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I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

This is terrific. Writing is a way to think; waiting to write until you've worked everything out is counterproductive. On the discomfort of thinking through writing, from @patthomson.bsky.social

This is the time that we opened for The Cramps, Danceteria, on Halloween as “it crawled from the south” and we only played songs about death. I wore a pink gingham bunny suit complete with bunny ears mitts and footies. The sweatshirt came off after the first song. Photo by Laura Levine. 1982? ‘83?

AMP thought of as one-off in Drosophila may have moved around a lot…much like genes encoding antiparasitoid proteins fand pore-forming toxins in insects (see karger.com/jin/article/...). Extremely cool. A challenge is that short peptides present a very hard problem—discerning convergence from HGT…

This bloom named for a fish signals Georgia’s wildflower season is underway Trout lilies are some of the state’s earliest blooming native wildflowers. And they're blooming right now.

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A structure-based approach identifies bacteriophage proteins that block bacterial immunity. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

A molecular ‘gatekeeper’ in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes CIBSS researchers at the University of Freiburg are part of an international team that sheds light on a crucial step in the initiation of the symbiosis between plants and soil bacteria.

A molecular 'gatekeeper' in plants opens the door for beneficial microbes
Congratulations, @ottlab.bsky.social on a great paper in Science.
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Superfood Fuels Mating Frenzy for a Critically Endangered Parrot

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Tree-obsessed Carmel is considering killing a 200-year-old cypress "This forest just disappeared by a thousand cuts."

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Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

The World's Biggest Acidic Geyser Erupts at Yellowstone After Years of Minimal Activity www.discovermagazine.com/the-world-s-...

You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before

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"Can I talk to you about an extended warranty for your car?"

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How two Big Bear eagles became social media’s hottest love story After ravens destroyed their first clutch, eagle power couple Jackie and Shadow laid new eggs — sending their vast fanbase into celebration. How did they rise to internet stardom?

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Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins

A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft some of his most renowned instruments. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...

The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 Nature - PIEZO2 is intrinsically more rigid than PIEZO1, and disparate mechanical stimuli paradoxically evoke opposite conformational and gating responses in each channel.

New paper from the lab led by @ericmulhall.bsky.social addresses how PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are tuned to different types mechanical forces. From nanometer-scale super-resolution microscopy to in vivo experiments, links single-molecule observations to physiological function.
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Trees cover rock, eventually: Study maps how bare Georgia bedrock turns into forest In the forests of the southeastern United States, dense tree cover dominates most landscapes. That's why the Appalachian Trail is sometimes nicknamed "The Green Tunnel." But avid hikers know that ofte...

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Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

🧪 Chimps are apparently just as obsessed with crystals as we are.

A new study found they’ll ignore normal rocks to carry quartz around, even nesting with them at night. Researchers actually had to trade bananas and yogurt to get the crystals back

YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts These Parasitic Wasps Are Part Virus

aw yeah parasitoid wasps

EIN3-Like family members fine-tune fruit coloration by divergently regulating flavonoid and carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato Tomato EIN3-like transcription factors shape fruit color by differentially regulating pigment pathways, providing targets for breeding.

EIN3-Like family members fine-tune fruit coloration by divergently regulating flavonoid and carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato (Ruochen Wang , Liang Yang , Mengbo Wu , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Thank you @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social @the.3i.social for this awesome demo of your spinning disc system for #rootimaging

This Ancient Roman Game Board Was a Mystery. Researchers Used A.I. to Figure Out How to Play The limestone oval is carved with a dark, thin rectangle on which ancient people repeatedly moved game pieces

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Bird flu rampant among black vultures - UGA Today Tens to hundreds of thousands of black vultures have likely been infected or died from H5N1, or bird flu, according to a new UGA study.

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Glass data storage solution could last millennia. Microsoft researchers write stable data into borosilicate glass with lasers. by Ananya Palivela. A rectangular piece of translucent blue glass has several vertical sections of varying blue shades.

In a new study, scientists at Microsoft Research have shown that they can write information into a lump of borosilicate glass. Their calculations suggest the data trapped inside would be stable for at least 10,000 years. cen.acs.org/materials/el...

#chemsky 🧪

Tricked-out Toyota Siena minivan was key to the research in this article. I kind of wonder how it was described in the grant budget. 🤔