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Why is potassium the cation of life?
A new hypothesis explores how potassium came to be the dominant biological cation.
The cost of chaos: If we can’t control quantity, we’d better control quality
Freeness of scientific literature is undeniably a highly desirable concept, but it is accompanied by a responsibility that we have not yet structurally realized.
Meet the tsetse fly, the supermom of the insect world
Tsetse flies, which miraculously birth young bigger than the mother, show us what science is about.
Precaution: A lesson from COVID-19
Measures that could have been taken at the beginning of the pandemic were not implemented as precautionary preparation but rather as reactionary to an already spreading virus, making it hard to contain.
Can the pneumonia vaccine protect against COVID-19?
Where pneumococcal vaccination rates are high, COVID-19 cases are low and vice-versa.
The four horsemen of the COVID-19 pandemic
The convergence of four broad but easily identifiable networked conditions, or “Four Horsemen”, are hurtling civilization towards potential self-destruction triggered by the current pandemic.
Understanding language evolution: Beyond Pan-centrism
Researchers look beyond our chimpanzees and bonobos to trace the evolution of human language.
A radical view of organelle evolution
What were the driving factors behind organelle evolution?
Getting Messages Across to Policy Makers
Strength of logic doesn’t substitute for strength in numbers, and an emotional message!
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