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Toxic plankton is shifting along Europe's coast, and shellfish reveal the public health threat
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (1091+ words) Shellfish harvesting areas along Britain's coast get shut down for many reasons, but one outpaces all the others " the presence of toxic plankton. At times, the shellfish carry a microscopic alga that produces toxins strong enough to cause people severe…...
Pancreatic cancer has resisted treatment for decades, but one pill may change the fight
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (797+ words) An oncologist who had treated pancreatic cancer for 16 years said she wept when she first saw the numbers from a new pancreatic cancer pill. Medical conferences rarely see that kind of reaction out loud. The results came from a daily…...
Wild pigs are helping rainforests thrive
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (674+ words) For half a century, ecologists have puzzled over a deceptively simple question. How does a single patch of rainforest support hundreds of tree species without a few fast growers crowding out the rest? A study from the University of Queensland…...
Scientists turn wisdom teeth into living neurons
2+ hour, 10+ min ago (490+ words) Most science stories about wisdom teeth end with a promise. This one is better understood as a measurement of distance traveled. The soft core inside every tooth is called dental pulp, and stem cells make up only about 1 percent of…...
A new tumor map shows why powerful cancer drugs may never reach the cells they need to hit
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (963+ words) Cancer scans can show a drug lighting up inside a tumor mass. To the oncologist reviewing the image, that glow reads as good news about cancer drug delivery " the drug arrived, the treatment has a foothold. What the scan cannot…...
Climate change is stunting children's growth across Africa
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (710+ words) Every degree of human-caused warming is pushing more of the world's youngest children into chronic undernutrition." A new study tracking 16 years of data across 34 African countries has found that each 1 C rise in anthropogenic temperature is directly linked to a…...
Leaf-like wings help katydids attract mates and avoid predators
5+ hour, 45+ min ago (812+ words) A male katydid " a large, leaf-green insect related to crickets " gets roughly two seconds of calling time across an entire night in a Panama rainforest. The rest of his hours pass in silence, tucked into a canopy full of competing…...
Japan may soon be filled with deer and wild boar as people disappear from rural land
5+ hour, 2+ min ago (849+ words) Across rural Japan, houses stand empty and the rice fields beside them sit untended. Whole villages that once held hundreds now count their residents in dozens, and many of those who remain are well into old age. That empty land…...
Meteorite reveals a lost planet that vanished from the solar system
7+ hour, 9+ min ago (877+ words) Scientists have long used chemistry to sort space rocks by origin. Rocks low in the compound behind ordinary sand and quartz always traced back to small, unremarkable asteroids. A meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2019 has exactly that chemistry....
Rising seas may quietly turn coastal freshwater salty, and scientists can now map where
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (772+ words) Coastal groundwater is something most people never think about. You turn on the tap, water flows, and the chain that delivered it stays invisible. Yet much of that water rises from underground aquifers. Along many coasts, rising seas are now…...