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Excessive Pubic Hair Grooming Linked to Higher Rates of STIs
Shaving and grooming may create an opportunity for infections to spread. People who frequently groom or remove their pubic hair are more likely to contract sexually…
Outlook: Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is a devastating disease that induces the body’s own immune system to eat away at the central nervous system, slowly robbing patients of their…
The devoted spider dads who fix up nurseries for their babies
Most male spiders bail out after mating – if they make it through the process alive, that is, as females of many spider species cannibalise their…
Drones on the delta
In Ghana’s Volta River delta, the remotely-operated aerial vehicles are going where researchers can’t to help study coastal erosion, flooding and migration. River deltas are among…
Sword-slashing sailfish hint at origins of cooperative hunting
Cooperation makes it happen. Sailfish that work together in groups to hunt sardines can catch more fish than if they hunt alone, even without a real…
Chimps and bonobos interbred and exchanged genes
Chimpanzees and their relatives bonobos are closer than we thought. Bonobos seem to have donated genes to chimps at least twice in the roughly two million…