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Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | get Bioluminescent Algae Lamp → | tags: cu boulder, bioluminescent algae, pyrocystis lunula

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Are microbes the future of pollution clean-up? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Nuwer | get Bioremediation Microbe Kit → | tags: microorganisms, synthetic biology, biotechnology

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Engineering resilient food systems in a warming world (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Woodrow | tags: neurospora, food security, climate change

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HIV-1 signalling remodels nuclear pores to licence infection (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Mesner | get Nuclear Pore Complex Model → | tags: hiv-1, nuclear pores, pbmc

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I'm scared about biological computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get Biological Computing Kit → | tags: biological computing, human neurons, lab-grown neurons

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I'm Scared About Biological Computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get Biological Computing Kit → | tags: biological computing, human neurons, language models

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The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Max G. Levy | get Plant Cell Microscope Kit → | tags: plant biology, chloroplasts, photosynthesis

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Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Birdsong Noise-Canceling Headphones → | tags: urban birds, traffic noise, dawn chorus

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Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That It’s Making Food Less Nutritious (futurism.com)

2026-05-03 | by Frank Landymore | get NutriBullet Blender → | tags: climate change, global change biology, university of washington

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Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | get Cell Biology Coloring Book → | tags: biology, living cell, visual-based

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All life runs on 20 amino acids. These cells run key machinery on just 19 (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-30 | by Dolgin | get Amino Acid Test Kit → | tags: amino acids, escherichia coli, ribosomes

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Chernobyl wildlife forty years on (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by It'S Years Since The Chernobyl Disaster. This Is What It Has Meant For Wildlife Living Around The Devastated Nuclear Power Plant. | get Chernobyl Wildlife Documentary Book → | tags: chernobyl, doñana biological station, radioactive wildlife

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Chernobyl Wildlife Forty Years On (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by It'S Years Since The Chernobyl Disaster. This Is What It Has Meant For Wildlife Living Around The Devastated Nuclear Power Plant. | get Chernobyl Wildlife Documentary Book → | tags: chernobyl, nuclear disaster, doñana biological station

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Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-23 | by Garisto | get NSF Grant Funding Guide → | tags: nsf, research grants, us science foundation

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Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next (wired.com)

2026-04-22 | by Marta Musso | tags: cocaine, atlantic salmon, griffith university

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Cocaine-Fueled Wild Salmon Swam Twice as Far as Sober Ones (wired.com)

2026-04-22 | by Marta Musso | tags: atlantic salmon, cocaine pollution, griffith university

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Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Russo | get Marine Biology Lab Puzzle → | tags: marine biological laboratory, mark terasaki, woods hole

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Early life may have breathed oxygen earlier than believed (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-21 | by Jennifer Chu | get Oxygen Sensor for Cars → | tags: mit, geobiology, cyanobacteria

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A printing press for biological data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | by Abhishaike Mahajan | get Bioinformatics Data Printer → | tags: biologics, media optimization, iku bio

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Fraudsters Staged Fake Bear Attacks on Luxury Cars Wearing a Costume. They Bilked Insurers Out of $141K — Until a Wildlife Expert Watched the Videos. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-20 | by Jonathan Small | get Wildlife Expert Surveillance Camera → | tags: insurance fraud, wildlife biologist, luxury cars

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How hidden contributions power modern research (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-20 | by Jamal | get Research Data Storage Device → | tags: john t. waterhouse herbarium, university of new south wales, plant specimens

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Air is full of DNA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-18 | by Irwin | get Air Purifier with HEPA Filter → | tags: environmental dna, university of washington, airborne dna

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You Are Not Prepared to Learn the Size of Neanderthal Infants (futurism.com)

2026-04-18 | by Sharon Adarlo | get Neanderthal Infant Model → | tags: neanderthal, tel aviv university, current biology

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OpenAI Has a New AI Model Built for Biology and Science (cnet.com)

2026-04-17 | by See Full Bio | get AI Biology Research Kit → | tags: openai, gpt-rosalind, dna

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OpenAI Starts Offering a Biology-Tuned LLM (slashdot.org)

2026-04-17 | get Biology-Tuned Language Model Kit → | tags: openai, biology-tuned, large language model

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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-16 | get AI Biology Textbook → | tags: openai, gpt-rosalind, biology

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What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid? (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-15 | get Alzheimer’s Brain Support Supplements → | tags: alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-β, neurobiology of aging

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The Caves That Could Help Us Find, or Become, Aliens (wired.com)

2026-04-15 | by Becky Ferreira | get Astrobiology Exploration Kit → | tags: nasa, lechuguilla cave, astrobiology

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The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-14 | by Irwin | get DNA Test Kit → | tags: environmental dna, university of washington, airborne dna

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AI is rewriting the rules of biological experiments, but safety regulations aren’t keeping up (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-13 | get AI Biological Experiment Safety Kit → | tags: artificial intelligence, biological experiments, safety regulations