This 194-Year-Old Tortoise Has the Cells of a 5-Year-Old

Scientists studying the world's oldest living land animal discovered something in his cells that defied every known rule of biological aging, and the implications for human longevity are only ...

[Investigated] Tongue coating comes back even if you just scrub it off. 4 steps to "replace" the bacteria on your tongue

"Even if I scrub with a tongue brush, it's white again the next day.""No matter how much I remove the tongue coating, it ...

Jonathan Is The Oldest Living Land Animal And A Beloved Resident Of Saint Helena

Imagine being born before Queen Victoria took the throne, witnessing nearly two centuries of human history, and still ...

Is the claim that 'saliva production from smoking is a rejection response' for real? Investigating the smoking saliva situation from the saliva scene in 'Yani Neko'

The opening of the anime 'Yani Neko' features a scene where Yani Neko lets out a stream of saliva or drool. The first time I ...
Nature

This is what the mysterious Denisovans looked like

Researchers report in Nature 1 today that they have an even better idea of what Denisovans looked like after analysing the physical features of remains that belong to a collection of 20 fossils found ...
Nature

Can a human survive in a whale’s belly? The science behind the thriller Whalefall

Foskolos: What we call whale fall is just the remains of a dead whale along the sea bottom, which creates entire ecosystems, ...