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2024-09-15 @ 15.54.07 ∈ In English

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the [world]. Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. […] [A] Japanese government review in [2010 found] that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead.

2024-06-27 @ 11.17.36 ∈ In English

Search iNaturalist Photos With Text · iNaturalist

This demo enables you to search a snapshot of 10 million iNaturalist photos using text queries. For instance, typing in ‘a bird eating fruit’ will return matching photos ranked by their relevance to your query.

2024-06-21 @ 19.25.49 ∈ In English

World-First Experiment Reveals Why Some People Never Get COVID-19

Where most people mount a rapid immune response against the invading virus in their blood, these volunteers showed a subtle but much faster reaction in their nasal tissues that included the activation of mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells and a drop in inflammatory white blood cells, which cleared the virus before it set in.

2023-12-04 @ 18.08.16 ∈ In English

Brains of newborns aren’t underdeveloped compared to other primates, finds new study

Contrary to current understanding, the brains of human newborns aren’t significantly less developed compared to other primate species, but appear so because so much brain development happens after birth, finds a new study led by University College London researchers.

2020-05-14 @ 16.22.39 ∈ In English

Moths have ‘secret role’ as crucial pollinators

The study says that the moths' transport networks are larger and more complex than those of daytime pollinators like bees.