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The Second Brain: How Your Gut Microbes Control Your Mind

People often perceive their emotions and thoughts as being completely contained within their heads, but a significant breakthrough in microbiology is uncovering

The Firefly: Living Light and the Mathematics of Synchrony

Source: Nativeplants garden — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons The Firefly: Living Light and the Mathematics of Synchrony On a warm summer night, thousands of fireflies

The oldest plague outbreak detected to date.

The oldest plague outbreak detected to date. The plague has not been eradicated, and recent research offers a clue regarding the origins of this civilization-killing

Very advanced communication of sperm whales.

Very advanced communication of sperm whales. Technology has been used to understand more and more of the life that resides with us here on earth and in this case

The Electric Eel: Living Battery of the Amazon

![The Electric Eel: Living Battery of the Amazon] Source: Abcor, Inc. Walden Research Division — Public domain, Wikimedia Commons The Electric Eel: Living Battery

Tardigrades: The Indestructible Travelers of the Microscopic World

Image: Gross, Vladimir; Mayer, Georg | CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Tardigrades: The Indestructible Travelers of the Microscopic World In 2007, a small capsule

The “zombie” sea cucumber

The “zombie” sea cucumber A sea cucumber is a worm-shaped animal, although they are not worms, they are echinoderms, they are directly related to the sea stars and

The Platypus: An Electroreception Expert Hidden in Plain Sight

Image: Travouillon, Kenny J.; Cooper, Christine; Bouzin, Jemmy T.; Umbrello, Linette S.; Lewis, Simon W. | CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Platypus: An

Your Stomach Is Eating Itself And You Don’t Even Know It

Need a video like this for your channel, brand, or project? Contact me: mortezayousefi@gmail.com Have you ever wondered what really happens when you're hungry? Your

The Mantis Shrimp: Nature's Most Extraordinary Eyes

The Mantis Shrimp: Nature's Most Extraordinary Eyes Imagine seeing the world through eyes that process sixteen types of color receptors — compared to the three that

The beauty of aridity.

Throughout all our wanderings and misadventures across the countryside we always come across beautiful specimens of plants, fruits, flowers and thorns like this

Why does breathe smell bad? Common causes and simple solutions

Source: Bad breath, also known as halitosis is a common and really an embarassing condition. It is an offensive and unpleasant maldour coming from the mouth. Usually

¡Human Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence & other earthly intelligences! ...it's my MeMe #317

«We don't perceive reality as it is, but as we are» Posts with rewards set to burn still pay curators. Only author rewards are burned. If you think this type of

This animal has a super power

This animal has a super power This is not the most handsome fish, let's say that its beauty is not hegemonic and perhaps that is why we don't talk about it more,

A Weekend Among Feathered Friends

The week is coming to a close in the western hemisphere, and the weekend lies ahead of us. I thought it would be great to welcome it with the help of a few feathered

Sapiens: De Animales a Dioses

Este fragmento de Sapiens de Yuval Noah Harari narra la asombrosa transición de la humanidad desde ser animales insignificantes hasta convertirse en los amos del

The guard and the unimvited guest

Greetings dear Hiveans and members of the #fascinatinginsects community. After a short while, Iam back with another article about an insect, quite commonly found

There She Blows! 💦

There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at

Case-bearing moth (Eng/Esp)

English version I was making breakfast when I noticed that something tiny had fallen onto the counter. At first, I didn’t pay it much attention, since it looked

On the Threshold of a Dream

The Canada goose is a common sight around the city, specially when the weather warms up, and the migratory birds return from its overwintering grounds in the south.