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Yeast studies show that diet in early life may positively affect lifelong health
by Babraham Institute Researchers at the Babraham Institute are proposing an alternative link between diet and aging based on studies in yeast. Dr. Jon Houseley and his team’s experiments show that healthy aging
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‘Like an urban dumpster’: rare corpse flower stinks out California
A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but with a corpse flower—well, tinkering around the edges isn’t going to help. A giant Amorphophallus Titanium opened its less-than-delicate petals this
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Training an animal? An ethicist explains how and why your dog, but not your frog, can be punished
, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainPeople talk to their pets every day: offering praise when they’re good, reassurance when they’re confused and affection when they’re cuddling. We also speak to animals
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Common food preservative has unexpected effects on the gut microbiome
by Zhenrun J. Zhang Food manufacturers often add preservatives to food products to keep them fresh. The purpose of these preservatives is to kill microbes that could break down and otherwise spoil the
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Silent fields: A cocktail of pesticides is stunting bumblebee colonies across Europe
by Charlie C. Nicholson, Jessica Knapp and Maj Rundlöf, The European Parliament voted against a proposal to curb the use of agricultural pesticides in November 2023. These chemicals, designed to protect crop
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Hungry sea otters are helping save California’s marshlands from erosion
by Christina Larson The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows. Sea otters eat constantly and one of their