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Another train derailed due to the storm between Blanes and Macanet with no one injured.

We need mitochondria.

Cats do attack bats. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S16165... More anecdotally, I knew a cat that brought in bats almost daily, which is why the owner ha…

You may find the recently published article “A General Principle of Neuronal Evolution Reveals a Human-Accelerated Neuron Type Potentially Underlying the High Prevalence of Autism …

I do not make any point on UA-strings, just on the difficulty of rate limiting.

Some of these crawlers appear to be designed to avoid rate limiting based on IP. I regularly see millions of unique ips doing strange requests, each just one or at most a few per d…

I would not expect this to make a difference as pasteurization does not inactivate Clostridium endospores.

Mosses and ferns also have motile, flagellated reproductive cells.

Intraguild killing (such as lions killing leopards or cheetahs) has been described in multiple species. Perhaps interesting; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34816428/ (Still need t…

Hang up and call back may not save you on some landline systems, where scammers are able to keep a connection open when the other party hangs up.

You could start from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment

Clostridium endospores can survive just fine in the presence of oxygen.

I see this regularly in the Netherlands, sometimes even with a feather attached.

Maybe when on treatment, otherwise superinfections are a thing and associated with poorer outcomes.

It was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124056

This may not be sufficient; some phone systems delay the disconnect, keeping you connected to the scammer on your outgoing call.

They don’t all appear to need this practice in order to be able to fly. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.066... is a recentish overview of existing literatu…

Post exposure vaccination alone is not sufficient to prevent death for all cases. Immunoglobulins (HRIG) must also be administered. HRIG is not commonly available in many developin…

Van Gogh Worldwide has a number of photos of paintings done with raking light and sometimes even X-ray. The raking light really allows one to see the amount of paint applied.

The hyperemesis described is not an acute OD-like effect, but happens to some chronic users. It wanes when cannabis use ceases. Very hot baths and showers help suppressing the naus…

Lead acid batteries can also produce hydrogen sulfide, which occasionally kills boat occupants using them.

The mutation rate for proofreading ssRNA viruses is, affair, about 10^-7 per nt per replication. If we don’t see a particular variant nt it is (from the top of my head) because it …

Most positive strand RNA viruses, including SARS-COV2, are capable to undergo recombination.

But cross species transmission is known for quite a lot of pathogens. Ebola is a recent example. Asserting it is so unlikely as to be dismissed out of hand doesn’t match knowledge …

It depends. It’s hard to model and even think about the selection pressures accurately. West Nile virus showed a marked increase in virulence in corvids recently as did rabbit hemo…