1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1294+ words) In the mosses and lichens of the world – the in-between places, where living conditions rapidly fluctuate – lives a tiny animal with an extraordinary survival skill. No, not tardigrades – it's their much weirder housemate, the bdelloid rotifer. Just like tardigrades, bdelloid…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (726+ words) For years, the threat of AI-assisted bioweapons development was largely a thought experiment debated in policy papers and congressional hearings. Anthropic’s new threat-intelligence report changes that framing, as AI Is Making state-linked attacks increasingly easier to execute. The company says…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (182+ words) Richard Dawkins' science classic tops 1 million copies sold in South Korea Core arguments unchanged over five decades, anniversary edition features fresh translation Epilogue cites a poem written by ChatGPT, points to "another kind of evolution" British scientist Richard Dawkins' "The…...

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4+ day, 6+ min ago   (711+ words) The ancient fig tree, one of the first plants ever domesticated by humans, is hiding remarkable genetic secrets in the mountainous corners of southeastern Türkiye....

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (662+ words) People often point to Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault as a safeguard for future crops. Yet researchers say the planet already contains a much bigger cache of seeds, spread through soils around the world. That underground storehouse could prove critical…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (246+ words) The US Army unveiled a new biodefense strategy through 2035 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Its goal is to maintain the troops’ full operational capability amid biological threats, including pandemics, accidental pathogen leaks, or an adversary’s deliberate use of biological weapons. Breaking…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (28+ words) | Tap to know more | Inshorts Inshorts Your brain hunts for data that proves you right: Sahar Yousef...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (962+ words) theorcasonian.com Midnight Mutterings | Kudzu: The plant that ate the south ||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES ||| Not quite sure what made me start thinking about Kudzu lately. Maybe it’s all the new bad news about plastic. Kudzu might be the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (310+ words) After eight years of field work, Czech botanists are completing a unique photographic atlas covering some 3,300 plants found in Czechia. An atlas on an unprecedented scale Work on the project began in 2018. The finished atlas is expected to include around…...