Dissolution time 🔥
#science #chemistry #magic #phenomenon #nature #photography #picsart #art #artscience #green #mastoart #mastoScience #scicomm #photographer

@cardes @dianna

And #ThickTrunkTuesday tomorrow

And of course #CatsOfMastodon

Or for more serious content
#MastodonScience #MastoScience #ScienceMastodon

Men are slowly losing their Y #chromosome, but a new sex #gene discovery in spiny rats brings hope for humanity

The imminent – evolutionarily speaking – disappearance of the human #Ychromosome has elicited speculation about our future.

What if more than one new system evolves in different parts of the world?

A “war” of the #sex #genes could lead to the separation of new species

#sciencecomms #science #mastoScience

https://theconversation.com/men-are-slowly-losing-their-y-chromosome-but-a-new-sex-gene-discovery-in-spiny-rats-brings-hope-for-humanity-195903

TIL: #Butterflies are the vultures of the Insect Kingdom

Maybe they are also the vampires of the Insect Kingdom

Also some examples of anti-social behavior by butterflies:

#butterfly #diabolical #mastoScience #SciFedi #sciencemasto

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/butterflies-can-be-distinctly-diabolical/article65647042.ece

Genetic Traces of Mysterious Human Lineage Detected in People Living in West Africa

This ghost population likely split from the ancestors of humans & Neanderthals between 360,000 - 1.02 million yrs ago

That was well before the gene-flow event that brought Neanderthal DNA back into West Africa around 43,000 yrs ago

#mastoScience #evolution #évolution

@stux @Gargron @sciencenature@friendica.produnis.de @scienze @openscience

https://t.co/AOnUjWkSkX

https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2019/03/03/very-ancient-ghosts-in-the-african-genome/

https://theconversation.com/early-humans-in-africa-may-have-interbred-with-a-mysterious-extinct-species-new-research-131699

Bats carry more viruses than humans but do not get sick. Why?

it is not bcos of anti-oxidant rich food they eat such as mangoes, figs, dates & papayas 😉

Doctors hypothesize that flying has evolved a dampened immune response in bats, leading to increased tolerance of viruses

Flying damages cells, which then dump RNA & DNA bits into bat blood

#coronavirus #nCoV2019 #mastohealth #mastoScience

https://t.co/cuQ855rup7

https://t.co/knkOtEk3jl

@stux @samyukth @noorul@quey.org @sanjayuvacha

On South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, the sugar ants crave something more than #sugar water.

It’s ‘nature’s sports drink’: Ants live off #urine on dry Australian island

#science #mastoScience #HungryMastodon

cc @stux @Gargron @samyukth @science @sciencenature@friendica.produnis.de @noor

https://t.co/aTbNNCzC3B