in fantasy or historical fiction ideologies and institutions are often way too coherent, irl they are usually an accumulation of weird historical accidents leading to a schizophrenic endproduct. seeing that process in real time is a lot of fun i have to say

snakes are assumed to have lost their limbs as an adaptation to a digging lifestyle,i just noticed that weirdly many digging mammals went the opposite direction, developing oversized digging limbs instead

This rate of validation suggests that affinity reagents such as antibodies should be considered non-specific until proven otherwise: 357 validated antibodies out of 1,124 tested. .

totally absurd

its unfortunately very hard to proof a trait is adaptive and if it maybe is restricted by some kind of trade-off, so its interesting that there are apparently many different ways for enzymes to be highly active and thermaly stable with no clear tradeoff shorturl.at/vxWMI

This only vaguely points at an evolutionary cause but it is nice to know that an enhancer is once again responsible for major evolutionary change

5th person ive encountered this summer who is dying of allergies and either doesnt know antihistamines exist or that you can get them as a nasal spray without the sedating side effects

virtual cell datasets being largely in-vitro cancer cell lines has a similar mouthfeel to what led to modern medicine being able to perfectly cure tumors in mice but not humans

I would go one step further and sacrifice my favorite concubine to power my doomsday device

youre in the danger zone

Never offer me food

"Apparently, every single fatty acid and amino acid is doing something different". Extraordinary

started following the right people here and now i could really see myself getting into kitschy 70s yaoi

stick and leave insects almost perfectly camouflage themselves by mimicing foliage, except they dont actually know that they are camouflaged and because species have multiple color morphs its essentialy luck of the draw if an individual ends up on the right background