News
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Brain not required for antidepressant to act
In brewer’s yeast, the drug sertraline distorts membranes and triggers a self-cannibalizing process.
- Life
Albatross forage with fractal-like flight
New data offer support for a modified mathematical pattern in birds’ hunting behavior.
- Life
Bacteria, insects join forces against pesticide
Microbes in gut, rather than genetic changes, allow insects to develop chemical resistance.
- Earth
Arctic sea emits methane
Source of climate-warming gas remains uncertain, but might be microbes.
- Psychology
Two heads sometimes better than one
Group decisions rise or fall based on what the most confident member knows or doesn’t know.
