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Topic: Biology (page 6)

Photomicrograph of algae (Getty Images/NNehring)

Using algae for stroke recovery

Nicole Karlis
In this handout images provided by the International Federation of Red Cross Japan, A member of the Japanese Red Cross team walks through what is left of the city of Otsuchi, after an 9.0 magnitude strong earthquake struck on March 11, off the coast of north-eastern Japan, March 14, 2011 in Otsuchi, Japan. The quake struck offshore at 2:46pm local time, triggering a tsunami wave of up to 10 metres which engulfed large parts of north-eastern Japan. On Tuesday there was a third explosion from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant causing fears for the radiation levels being emitted from the plant. (Patrick Fuller/Japanese Red Cross/IFRC via Getty Images)

Fukushima's animals are... thriving?

Matthew Rozsa
A team of ecologists and ecology students from Kasetsart University collect wingspan data from a wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat at an on site lab near the Khao Chong Pran Cave on September 12, 2020 in Ratchaburi, Thailand. A team of researchers consisting of scientists, ecologists, and officers from Thailand's National Park Department have been conducting bat sampling collection missions throughout Thailand's countryside in an effort to understand the origins of COVID-19. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

WHO forms team to find COVID's origins

Daniel Karel
A nurse attends to a COVID-19 patient that is wearing a CPAP helmet while he is moved out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pope John XXIII Hospital on April 7, 2020 in Bergamo, Italy. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Sleep apnea and the failure of evolution

Matthew Rozsa
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An illustration of two ivory billed wood pecker (Getty Images/Imagezoo)

23 gone, countless more to save

John R. Platt - The Revelator
A couple sit next to each other in a doctor's office and listen carefully to their doctor. (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Long-term couples share health traits

Daniel Karel
Siberian Husky (Getty/Mirjam Claus)

Humans once used dogs as currency: study

Matthew Rozsa
Trash in the ocean water (Getty Images/Juan Camilo Bernal)

How to reduce marine dead zones

Tara Lohan
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Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

A scientist’s life in the treetops

Sarah Boon - Undark
Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans, at O'Reilly's Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. (David Tipling/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Animals evolving as the climate changes

Matthew Rozsa
Medical imaging of various stages of embryo and fetal development during pregnancy (Getty stock photo)

When life begins: a question of politics

Sahotra Sarkar - The Conversation
Human Evolution Illustration (Getty Images/Man_Half-tube)

The evolution culture war quietly ends

Matthew Rozsa
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Female holding tablet in front of body to display coloured x-ray illustrations of a pregnancy (Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images)

Could science prolong female fertility?

Matthew Rozsa
Close up man head of hair loss (Getty Images/Chanakon Laorob)

Why, where and how we go bald

Matthew Rozsa
Mallard Ducks Swimming In Lake (Getty Images/Colin Drewery)

How did duck sex get so weird?

Jess Thomson
DNA in a speech bubble (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Have we hit peak DNA?

Olga Mecking
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Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
Summer meadow full of colorful flowers and butterflies flying around. (Getty Images)

How butterflies get drunk

Matthew Rozsa
Catfishing (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How catfishers exploit basic neurology

Stacey Wood, Tessa Solomon Lane, Brian Keeley, Thomas Borowski
Greedy (Getty Images)

Our genes aren't "selfish"

Jeremy Lent
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Evolution Gone Wrong by Alexander Bezzerides (Photo illustration by Salon/Hanover Square Press/Kevin Grote)

The trade-offs of being human

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty Images)

Gene therapy may offer hope for blind

Matthew Rozsa
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Dog wearing a medical mask (Getty Images)

A coronavirus moves from dogs to humans

Nicole Karlis
Very Large Sponge Petrosia hoeksemai (Petrosiidae) (Getty Images)

A worm that grows like a tree

Matthew Rozsa
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