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Molecules in Motion: Molecular Mechanisms of Exercise’s Health Benefits
Your body is reshaping itself: its organs, tissues, and cellular pathways are transformed in response to physical exercise.
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Generational Starvation: The Link Between Ancestral Diets and Modern Disease
Studies suggest that our bodies can fight stressors like famine across generations, even after they have long since disappeared.
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The Heart of an Ecosystem: Pollinator Species in the Face of Climate Change
In the face of climate change, pollinator species play a key role in preventing extreme habitat or species loss; yet, the detrimental impacts of climate change might prevent them from preserving these natural ecosystems.
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Illuminating insights: Using Fractals to Model Lightning
Now, many parts of lightning’s trajectory that would previously have been modeled individually, a very complex and time-staking process, can be combined and simplified using the fractal properties that lightning bolts possess.
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The Menstrual Conundrum
Recent research has shown that periods actually play a critical role in both protecting and preserving a woman’s body and resources.
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Traversing Tumors: How Single-cell RNA Sequencing Maps Malignant Tumors
It is difficult for scientists to find solutions for harmful mutations, as while mutations are inevitable and not entirely random, they’re notoriously unpredictable.
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An Anomaly in Phase Transition: Liquid Crystals
While Austrian botanist Federich Reinitzer was investigating the properties of various chemical compounds, he observed that the compound cholesteryl benzoate appeared to have two distinct melting points.
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Symphony of the Human Brain
The “connectome” has become widely accepted within the field of neuroscience, bridging various attempts to map macroscopic neural connections to microscopic neural activity.
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Dual Consciousness in Split-Brain Patients
Experiments conducted on split-brain patients reveal fascinating suggestions for the roles and specializations of each hemisphere.
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The Gourmet Guide To the Galaxy: The Spaghettification of Black Holes
Approaching or crossing near the singularity, all matter inevitably undergoes intense spaghettification and becomes completely disintegrated.
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