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Pond Creature Has 15,600 Chromosomes - Ed Yong, Phenomena

Remember when encyclopaedias were books, and not just websites? You’d have a shelf full of information, packaged into entries, and then into separate volumes. Your genome is organised...

Brain-Eating Protists Populate Lakes Everywhere - Robert Gonzalez, io9

Back in December, authorities learned that Naegleria fowleri — a deadly, brain-eating amoeba, pictured here — was living in Louisiana tapwater, infecting its victims' grey...

Did Irish Potato Famine Come from the Air? - Jeffrey Marlow, Wired

In the mid-1800s, Irish potato farmers began to notice something unusual: soon after harvest, potatoes decayed into slimy black mush — utterly inedible masses of goo.  In a country...

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