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Ah, the groundbreaking revelation: #Beethoven had hair! 🎻🔬 After an arduous quest involving #JavaScript and cookies, scientists triumphantly confirm that composers in the 1800s indeed possessed #follicles. 🧬🥳 Thanks, tech geniuses, for this follicular triumph!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00181-1 #Hair #Discovery #Science #HackerNews #ngated

Matt Willemsen Jun 1, 2024

A Change in The Development of Our Ovaries Could Have Led to Bigger Brains
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-change-in-the-development-of-our-ovaries-could-have-led-to-bigger-brains #hominin #brain #evolution #ovaries #energycost #follicles

A Change in The Development of Our Ovaries Could Have Led to Bigger Brains

The human brain may have steadily grown in size not because evolution plucked some big-brained ancestors out of the crowd, favoring their smarts over others, but because energy allocated to growing egg-laden ovarian follicles went to our heads instead.

ScienceAlert

Matt Willemsen Nov 5, 2023

Scientists Just Discovered a New Human Sense of Touch
A new study reveals a previously undiscovered way that we can feel light touches: directly through our hair follicles.
Before now, it was thought that only nerve endings in the skin and around the hair follicles could transmit the sensation.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-human-sense-of-touch #sense #touch #hair #follicles

Scientists Just Discovered a New Human Sense of Touch

A new study reveals a previously undiscovered way that we can feel light touches: directly through our hair follicles.

ScienceAlert

Dezene Huber 🌻Feb 18, 2023

“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)

Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!

🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.

💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.

😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.

🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.

If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/6/msac125/6604544

Human Follicular Mites: Ectoparasites Becoming Symbionts

Abstract. Most humans carry mites in the hair follicles of their skin for their entire lives. Follicular mites are the only metazoans that continuously live on

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