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Grey hair isn't random decline — it's melanocyte stem cells wearing out, a flaw natural selection never bothered fixing. Here ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair ...

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SpaceX incentivizes Musk to create a million-person colony on Mars. But in his lifetime, that’s not realistic.

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A new evolutionary theory suggests that some asexual parasites may temporarily be able to infect a wider range of hosts as harmful genetic mutations build up. In a paper published in Trends in ...

A mosquito (Culex nigripalpus) feeds on nectar from mango flower in Florida, the US. Mosquitoes are better known to spread ...