Usually, an organism’s cells all carry the same genes. In yellow crazy ants, some cells carry only maternal and others only paternal genetic material. Chimerism can happen by accident in nature but these ants rely on chimerism to exist.
Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal thanks to “hot mixing” with quicklime.
Take the Harvard implicit bias test here. Everyone has implicit biases – thoughts and feelings outside your conscious awareness and control which influence your decisions. Once you’re aware of them, you can start taking steps to address them.
All our ancestors had plenty of fur. According to a new study on relatively hairless mammals, we still have the means to be hirsute. Those genes, it seems, have simply been switched off.
Over the past 10 years, R&D gross funding value has stayed the same, despite an increase in the cost of doing research, coupled with the increase in the population of scientists.
A quick (and engaging!) TED talk about what we might be missing when we just focus on the average.
“Tortured phrases” — are probably the result of automated translation or software that attempts to disguise plagiarism.
Spectacular art on a nano scale (requires access to specialist chemicals, compounds and tools, but hey, why not?).
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