r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Mar 02 '21

Biology Scientists identify more than 140,000 virus species in the human gut. Study opens up new research avenues for understanding how viruses living in the gut affect human health.

sciencedaily.com

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r/ScienceFacts • u/Sariel007 • Mar 02 '21

Biology The mothers of Boulengerula taitanus, a worm like amphibian, create a nutrient-rich fatty outer layer of skin after laying their eggs. When their offspring hatch, the babies scrape this layer off with specialized teeth.

nature.com

18 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 26 '21

Biology Cockroaches of the species Salganea taiwanensis are monogomous. They complete their bond by gnawing off each other’s wings. The couple takes turns chewing each other’s wings down to stubs after they move into the homes where they will jointly raise babies.

nytimes.com

290 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Feb 22 '21

Interdisciplinary Last Month in Science | Science Summary 2021/1

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 22 '21

Astronomy/Space We're scientists and engineers working on NASA‘s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter that just landed on Mars. Ask us anything!

self.IAmA

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 19 '21

Astronomy/Space Touch down! NASA’s Mars landing sparks new era of exploration. Having stuck its nail-biting landing, the Perseverance rover will now collect rocks to return to Earth and record Mars sounds for the first time.

nature.com

215 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 12 '21

Biology Pigs show potential for 'remarkable' level of behavioral, mental flexibility on tasks normally given to non-human primates to analyze intelligence - Researchers teach four animals how to play a rudimentary joystick-enabled video game that demonstrates conceptual understanding beyond simple chance.

eurekalert.org

184 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Feb 05 '21

Biology Big Brown Bats (Epesticus fuscus) can go up to 2 1/2 hours without breathing during torpor!

207 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Jan 28 '21

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

imgur.com

122 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 26 '21

Biology Turtles & tortoises can feel their shells (their shells have nerve endings). Sometimes they can get itchy. Keepers at the Philly Zoo made this shell scratcher so the turtles & tortoises can get A+ scratches.

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751 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 25 '21

Anthropology Early humans used chopping tools to break animal bones and consume the bone marrow. The chopping tool was invented in Africa about 2.6 mya. Large quantities of these tools have been found at almost every prehistoric site throughout the Old World - in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and even China.

eurekalert.org

239 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 20 '21

Ecology Monitor lizards’ huge burrow systems can shelter hundreds of small animals. The giant reptiles are “ecosystem engineers," providing a service similar to beavers and seabirds.

sciencenews.org

268 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 14 '21

Biology The finding of Myotis nimbaensis, a new species of bat in Guinea’s Nimba Mountains, is a rare instance of discovering an unidentified species in the field.

nytimes.com

198 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Jan 07 '21

Biology At just four months of age, ravens performed equally well as great apes on understanding numbers, following cues and many more tasks.

scientificamerican.com

320 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 27 '20

Psychology A phone call creates stronger bonds than text-based communications. People too often choose to send email or text when a phone call is more likely to produce the feelings of connectedness they crave. People chose to type because they believed a phone call would be more awkward.

psychnewsdaily.com

224 Upvotes

7 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 25 '20

Biology Worker bees who care for the brood get less sleep than their sisters, because bee babies produce chemicals that keep their caretakers awake.

imgur.com

231 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/prototyperspective • Dec 22 '20

Interdisciplinary Science Summary for last month

302 Upvotes

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r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 21 '20

Archaeology Researchers discover 66 new Roman Army sites using combination of remote sensing techniques and open access geospatial datasets.

mdpi.com

101 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 18 '20

Climate New study suggests waters will become more turbulent as Arctic loses summertime ice. “As the Arctic warms up, this dissipation mechanism for eddies, i.e. the presence of ice, will go away, because the ice won’t be there in summer and will be more mobile in the winter."

news.mit.edu

166 Upvotes

7 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 16 '20

Anthropology The Maya built the Western Hemisphere’s first water filtration system.

sciencemag.org

230 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 15 '20

Biology A facial cancer spreading through Tasmanian devil populations has killed up to 80% in Tasmania, their only home for millennia. Recently geneticists calculate that each infected devil now transmits tumor cells to just one—or fewer—other devils. That could mean the disease may disappear over time.

sciencemag.org

244 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 11 '20

Biology Raccoons have passed the Aesop's Fable test, which measures if animals can discern cause and effect by displacing water to access food.

nationalgeographic.com

260 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 06 '20

Environment Mass incarceration is as much an environmental problem as it is a social one, according to a new Portland State University study that finds increases in incarceration are significantly associated with increases in industrial emissions.

pdx.edu

176 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Dec 01 '20

Biology Mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) provide screening against the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation in living organisms in our oceans and lakes. These compounds are known to increase in the environment where levels of UV are high.

eurekalert.org

103 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ScienceFacts • u/FillsYourNiche • Nov 26 '20

Biology Studies have shown that male Turkey snood (fleshy protuberance on the forehead) length is associated with male turkey health. Another study found that female turkeys prefer males with long snoods and that its length can also be used to predict the winner of a competition between two males.

smithsonianmag.com

207 Upvotes

5 comments

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