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After 40,000 Years, Microbes Are Awakening From Thawing Permafrost... With newfound appetites. Via @sciencealert #ClimateChange 🌎♨️ #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷 #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #Biology

After 40,000 Years, Microbes A...

After 40,000 Years, Microbes Are Awakening From Thawing Permafrost

Ancient life has been resurrected from the bowels of a military tunnel that penetrates the Alaskan permafrost.

ScienceAlert

Flipboard Science Desk 4h ago

With the honey industry growing and bees looked after so well, you might think honeybees are thriving. But for the first time, wild honeybee populations have been officially categorized as endangered within the European Union. Read more from @ScienceAlert:

https://flip.it/HECI76

#Science #Nature #Animals #Biology #Europe #Bees

It's Official: Wild Honeybees 'Endangered' in Europe For First Time, Scientists Warn

You might think honeybees are thriving – after all, the honey industry is growing and its bees are well looked after by beekeepers.

ScienceAlert

ooli3 4h ago

This OnlyFans account might actually save the world

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Scientific Frontline 6h ago

Researchers have found a new way to produce human #blood cells in the lab that mimics the process in natural #embryos. Their discovery holds potential to simulate blood disorders like leukemia, and to produce long-lasting blood stem cells for #transplants.
#Biology #Biochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/bio10132503.html

New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells

Scientists make human blood in the lab — here’s how

Vicent Gisbert Cardona 6h ago

Illustration of an african flea beetle (Polyclada bohemani) 🐞
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#scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #beetle

Flipboard Science Desk 6h ago

Three-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild.

@TheConversationUS explores the chance encounter that lead to new research: https://flip.it/EkZSe_

#Lizard #Animals #Science #Biology #Evolution

3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

Most lizards probably don’t survive devastating injuries. But a new study documents 122 cases of limb loss across 58 species – these exceptions shine a new light on natural selection.

The Conversation

Scientific Frontline 8h ago

Scientists from UrFU Department of #Biodiversity and #Bioecology with their colleagues from Taizhou University (China) have discovered unknown #lichen species in China.
#Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/bio10132501.html

Ural Scientists Have Discovered Unknown Lichen Species in China

The discoveries were made during a large-scale expedition to the provinces of Gansu and Yunnan

HP van Braam 9h ago

Look at these kittens on the beach! Very smart kitties learning how to hunt seals!

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251009-the-photo-showing-namibias-desert-lions-living-on-the-beach

#catsofmastodon #science #biology

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

BBC

Scientific Frontline 11h ago

This study contradicts the more traditional #evolutionary view — on island-colonizing species, whose #genomes are larger and often have more repetitive elements — and expands the scientific debate on a major puzzle in evolutionary biology: how and why does genome size change during the evolution of living beings?
#Genetics #Biology #Biomolecular #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/gen10132501.html