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𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist

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𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist

Cancer Risk From Pesticides Comparable To Smoking For Some Cancers

Food security comes with a steep price: the strongest associations between pesticides and cancer was for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukaemia…

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Cancer Risk From Pesticides Comparable To Smoking For Some Cancers

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Sharks On Cocaine: Recreational Narcotics Are Contaminating Ecosystems

The drug was found in all wild Brazilian sharpnose sharks tested, with a concentration as much as 100 times higher than previously reported…

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Sharks On Cocaine: Recreational Narcotics Are Contaminating Ecosystems

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Gardening, Birding, and Outdoor Adventure

Domesticating The Ground Cherry Using CRISPR Gene Editing

This hardy, nutritious and tasty fruit is teaching scientists how to rapidly domesticate a plant into a sustainable and resilient crop…

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Domesticating The Ground Cherry Using CRISPR Gene Editing

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Rare Genetic Mutation Turns Green Frog Blue, Surprising Scientists

An elusive tree frog with a never-before-seen color mutation, was spotted and photographed in a remote part of northwestern Australia.

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Rare Genetic Mutation Turns Green Frog Blue, Surprising Scientists

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Ancient Genomes Reveal Dingoes Are Not Related To Modern Domesticated Dogs

Newly recovered DNA shows modern dingoes share almost no genetic ancestry with domestic dogs but are descended from ancient canids from…

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Ancient Genomes Reveal Dingoes Are Not Related To Modern Domesticated Dogs

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When Hippos Fly: Hippopotamuses Can Move So Fast They Become Airborne

Analysis shows hippos get all four feet off the ground simultaneously for up to 15% of the time when running at full speed

Sep 4

When Hippos Fly: Hippopotamuses Can Move So Fast They Become Airborne

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Frog ‘Saunas’ Help Endangered Frogs Survive A Deadly Fungal Pandemic

Amphibian species around the world are threatened with extinction by the deadly fungal disease, chytridiomycosis. A simple, low-cost…

Aug 26

Frog ‘Saunas’ Help Endangered Frogs Survive A Deadly Fungal Pandemic

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Wild Boar Has Five Times More Toxic PFAS Than Humans Allowed To Eat

The liver of wild boars are bioindicators for the presence, types and concentrations of PFAS “forever chemicals” in sites with limited…

Aug 21

Wild Boar Has Five Times More Toxic PFAS Than Humans Allowed To Eat

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Climate Change Could Make Fungi More Dangerous To Human Health

Higher environmental temperatures may trigger mutations in fungi that lead to increased infectivity, more aggressive growth, or to…

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Climate Change Could Make Fungi More Dangerous To Human Health

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Genome Of The Last Living Wild Horse Species Has Now Been Mapped

After it was almost driven extinct, the complete genome from an Endangered Przewalski’s horse has been mapped by a team from the University…

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Genome Of The Last Living Wild Horse Species Has Now Been Mapped

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𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist

𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist

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PhD evolutionary ecology/ornithology. Psittacophile. SciComm senior contributor at Forbes, former SciComm at Guardian. Also on Substack at 'Words About Birds'.

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