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From Giants to Jellyfish: The Evolution of Sleep Across Species

By mapping the evolutionary relationships across the tree of life, we can excavate the underpinnings of sleep across all animals.
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Sniffing Out a Cure to Malaria

Malaria is a public health concern of utmost importance, and a promising avenue for mitigating the public health threat presented by malaria may be investigating mosquito olfactory or smell.
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Unlocking the Secrets of Protein Misfolding: AlphaFold’s Role in Cardiovascular Disease

The release of AlphaFold 1 in 2018 achieved the first significant breakthrough, but it was AlphaFold 2 in 2020 that revolutionized the field, predicting protein structures with a level of accuracy that was previously impossible.
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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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Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants: A Sustainable Alternative to Bone Marrow Transplants

Following the success of pioneering medical procedures, umbilical cord blood, which was once often discarded as medical waste, could serve as a potentially valuable therapeutic tool. Now, it has been integrated into treatment plans for several blood disorders, such as leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and genetic blood disorders.
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Tiny, Indestructible Creatures: Tardigrades In Healthcare

In an effort to combat the harmful repercussions of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, scientists have discovered the potential of a creature of microscopic origin with macroscopic capabilities: the tardigrade.
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Multilingualism: A Way to Gasconade

Though the specific number of people who speak more than two languages is unknown, an estimated 60% of the world are multilingual—roughly six in ten people.Many scientists have speculated that the reason multilingual individuals rarely make errors when switching between languages is because of cognitive control mechanisms.
