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From the unknown to spotlight: newly identified hormone adjusts hepatic cholesterol synthesis to...
Nature· 1 day agoCholesterol is an essential component of all mammalian cell membranes. As both its excess and its scarcity interfere with cell function, cholesterol metabolism is tightly regulated from the ...
Marta Segura: Chilling voice in an overheating city
Los Angeles Times· 56 minutes agoMarta Segura knows it can be hard to think of heat as an emergency in Los Angeles, either because you’ve got the air conditioner blasting and a cold drink in your hand, or because you don’t ...
Searching for a female partner for the world’s “loneliest” plant
Ars Technica· 7 days ago“Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote paleontologist Richard Fortey in his...
A tiny fern with a big secret just got into the Guinness Book of World Records
Los Angeles Times· 6 days agoTmesipteris oblanceolata is an obscure species of fork fern found in New Caledonia, a French...
On Peaks Island's back shore, residents and tourists are divided over rock sculptures
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoJun. 23—On the rocky back shore of Peaks Island lies a small beach where, for at least a decade, likely longer, people have stacked the shore's flat, shale rocks into towers that teeter over ...
‘Parasite cleanse’: Why experts are warning about the TikTok trend
FOX 8 Cleveland· 15 hours agoIf talk of binders, wormwood and “cleansing your gut microbiome” sound familiar, you may have seen...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 5 days agoThe lifting of a ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) by Kenya’s new government barely a month after president William Ruto was sworn in is causing jitters, with politicians ...
How AI lies, cheats, and grovels to succeed - and what we need to do about it
ZDNet· 3 days agoIt has always been fashionable to anthropomorphize artificial intelligence (AI) as an "evil" force –...
How to Get Rid of Folliculitis
InStyle· 3 days agoRather than shake my fists in frustration at the maleficent skin conditions gods, I knew I had to do something. Keep reading for my expert-approved guide...
River ‘plastisphere’ serves as home to ecosystem-draining organisms
Tahoe Daily Tribune· 4 days agoPolluted rivers and lakes worldwide are host to a new and evolving population of microorganisms and...
