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Strange behavior of bacteria with artificial proteins
An approach to understanding the components of living organisms is to try to create them, using the principles of chemistry, engineering and genetics.
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Cicadas regulate the number of birds
Cicadas have unusual life cycle. Most of the time they are in the form of larvae, burrowing, living underground.
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Detecting carnivorous maggots living under human skin
The nightmare for all travelers has come true for an Australian couple while on vacation in South America: The carnivorous maggots began to nest under their skin.
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How do insects 'tame' the bacteria?
How are 'tamed' insects living bacteria symbiosis with me? Scientists have accidentally answered the question thanks to an accident two years ago.
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Digging the 5,000-year-old oak tree trunk
Oak trees living in marshes are often found in fields. This is one of the rarest timbers in the UK, with quality comparable to today's most expensive tropical hardwoods.
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Listed 7 species of 'most smelly' flowers in the world
Like skunk cabbage in the West, Eastern cabbage cabbage has a habit of living and developing in marsh areas. In spring, Oriental cabbage flowers often bloom and these fl…
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The fight against human cannibalism
Aimee Copeland - a 24-year-old woman living in Carrollton, Georgia, USA - infected with a strain of bacteria capable of causing Necrotizing Fasciitis, a form of streptoc…
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Find the oldest living body in the world
After two decades of studying a type of algae-eating microorganisms living in a lake in Norway, scientists on April 26 claim that it is one of the oldest living organism…
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Living 'loose' to avoid extinction?
The latest study by entomologists shows that the secret of big beehives is that their queen is not faithful, 'life in life' with a single mate. The more the queen bee ha…
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Discovering the longest living grass in the planet
Sophie Arnaud-Haond, a scientist from the French Research Institute, and her colleagues sampled from 40 seagrass beds Posidonia oceanica on an area up to 3,500km long. T…
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Turn 'vampire' bacteria into living antibiotic
US scientists think it is possible to use a vampire-like bacterium
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'Moving house' for ladybug spider
The RSPB Nature Reserve has just moved Britain's rarest spider species to a new place in a plastic bottle.
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Giant insects in the Gulf of Mexico
Recently, there was an image of a strange 1 meter-long insect in the water, living underwater by oil drilling workers in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Find the deepest animal
The multicellular organism Halicephalobus mephisto lives at a depth of more than 3.5 km (deeper than any other known creature) found in the Witwatersrand basin, near Joh…
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'Giant' termite mushroom weighs 3.5kg
In the morning of June 6, Ms. Truong Anh Dao (living in Dong Tu Street, Lai Thieu Ward, Thuan An Town, Binh Duong) discovered in a vacant land near her home a 'giant' mu…