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.
In 2018, NASA changed the way it evaluates requests for observing time on Hubble Telescope to reduce biases, and it’s working.
Scientists receive too little peer-review training. Here’s one method from Nature for effectively peer-reviewing papers.
Listen to the reaction of these scientists when they find a bigfin squid – a deep sea creature rarely sighted.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the awesome properties of the Number 42. Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians.
An entertaining talk from Jia Jiang about an experiment he conducted to learn about rejection and how to embrace these experiences to find opportunity.
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