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2025-05-02 @ 14.28.55 ∈ In English

(Video via ABC News; shark footage from 0:40 onwards)

Australian locals rescue great white shark stranded in shallow water

"It was either sick or … just tired," said Core, who was visiting with his family from Gold Coast in Queensland state. "We definitely got it into some deeper water, so hopefully it's swimming still."

2025-04-30 @ 18.44.28 ∈ In English

Which arm? Where you get your vaccine booster matters

Experiments in mice revealed the key to this lies in the lymph node closest to the vaccination site, where the vaccine response is generated. A clinical study in 30 volunteers who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine confirmed that the animal results also apply to humans.

2025-04-30 @ 18.38.56 ∈ In English

(Confusingly, the article doesn’t elaborate on how a resistance against what’s effectively a physical attack can possibly work, but apparently it’s mainly a resistance against the many bioactive substances that ticks need to inject into the host in order to feed successfully, according to another paper from 2020.)

Once bitten, animals develop resistance that shrinks tick population

[Researchers] at Washington State University found that once host animals were exposed to ticks, they developed resistance to bites that dramatically shrank the tick population going forward.

2025-04-24 @ 18.59.02 ∈ In English

Study exposes magicians' misconceptions about why their tricks work

[For example, magicians] felt that active participation in a trick would increase participants' sense of wonder, [but] the participants themselves enjoyed the trick less and were actually more confused by what was happening.

2025-04-23 @ 11.34.11 ∈ In English

Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack

In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered from Google’s systems, passing all verifications but pointing to a fraudulent page that collected logins.

2025-04-21 @ 14.00.16 ∈ In English

More ticks carry Lyme disease bacteria in pheasant-release areas, research shows

Researchers studied ticks in 25 woodland areas in South West England where pheasants are released—and 25 nearby control sites where no pheasants are released. They found that Borrelia spp.—the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease—was almost 2.5 times more common in ticks in the pheasant-release areas.

2025-04-18 @ 13.59.35 ∈ In English

What the Caribou Remember - bioGraphic

The caribou, researchers concluded, remembered the deaths of their kin or the conditions that led to them. Using that information, many chose a different location [for their winter range], where the survival rate ended up being slightly better and a lot more consistent.

2025-04-14 @ 14.19.56 ∈ In English

France shows how Europe can survive Trump

Trump's America threatens European soveregnity to its core. France has long been strivingt for strategic autonomy and proves that this is possible in Europe in a military, energy and technological sense as well. Here's what we can learn from them.

2025-04-08 @ 17.06.14 ∈ In English

Bird species that do well in urban areas are more colorful and less brown, study finds

These color differences are probably due to differences in habitat structure and predation pressure—cities are less forested, have different background colors and a lower number of avian predator species.

2025-04-04 @ 10.37.26 ∈ In English

A new drug makes your blood toxic to mosquitoes – DW – 03/28/2025

Nitisinone is used to treat hereditary tyrosinemia type 1, which is a disease where people have too much tyrosine in their blood. Lab tests found that […] the presence of the drug prevents the insect from being able to digest the human "blood meal" — 24 hours later, the insect dies.