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These poisons are all around us from when we get up until we sleep. Many people don’t realize just how harmful these pollutants can be and often underestimate their effects on our health.
Below, we will discuss 8 reasons environmental pollutants harm our health.

Plants and animals

Bamboo eating pandas: It’s all in the wrist.

3rd July 20223rd July 2022 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda to survive solely on bamboo and the evolutionary history of panda’s false thumbs

The octopus’ brain and the human brain share the same ‘jumping genes’

2nd July 2022 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

A new study has identified an important molecular analogy that could explain the remarkable intelligence of these invertebrates

News Plants and animals

Study: How placentas evolved in mammals

2nd July 2022 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

In a new study, scientists use gene expression patterns, called transcriptomics, to investigate the ancient origins of one organ: the placenta, which is vital to pregnancy.

Environmental sciences Physical sciences

What Causes Solar and lunar Eclipses and How Can It Affect People

30th June 202230th June 2022 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

An eclipse is a natural phenomenon that occurs when the sun, moon, and earth align in a particular way. There are two types of eclipses: solar eclipses and lunar eclipses. Solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between the sun and the earth, causing the sun to be temporarily obscured.

Plants and animals

Researchers feed worms a natural plant extract; watch them fatten, live 40% longer

24th February 202224th February 2022 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

A new study looks at how a natural plant extract of a particular kind of wormwood, Artemisia scoparia, could lead to longer lifespans, including potentially for humans. The key lies in enhanced metabolic health.

A virtual reality arena was coupled with in vivo fluorescence brain activity imaging to observe the neural dynamics of brain structures implicated in learning and memory formation during conditioning. Dhruv Grover, UC San Diego KIBM

Plants and animals

Flies possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities than previously known

21st February 202221st February 2022 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

Common flies feature more advanced cognitive abilities than previously believed. Using a custom-built immersive virtual reality arena, neurogenetics and real-time brain activity imaging, researchers found attention, working memory and conscious awareness-like capabilities in fruit flies.

Fun Plants and animals

Scientists investigate how Venus fly trap plants shut in response to touch.

21st February 202221st February 2022 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

Scientists have revealed the three-dimensional structure of Flycatcher1, an aptly named protein channel that may enable Venus fly trap plants to snap shut in response to prey. The structure of Flycatcher1 helps shed light on longstanding questions about the remarkably sensitive touch response of Venus fly traps. The structure also gives the researchers a better understanding of how similar proteins in organisms including plants and bacteria, as well as proteins in the human body with similar functions (called mechanosensitive ion channels), might operate.

Plants and animals

Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America’s largest animals

17th February 2021 Ominy science editory team 0 Comments

A new study suggests that the extinction of North America’s largest mammals was not driven by over-hunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas. Instead, the findings, based on a new statistical modelling approach, suggest that populations of large mammals fluctuated in response to climate change, with drastic decreases of temperatures around 13,000 years ago initiating the decline and extinction of these massive creatures.

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Environmental sciences

8 Effects Of Environmental Pollution On Human Health

Bamboo eating pandas: It’s all in the wrist.

The octopus’ brain and the human brain share the same ‘jumping genes’

Study: How placentas evolved in mammals

What Causes Solar and lunar Eclipses and How Can It Affect People

Researchers feed worms a natural plant extract; watch them fatten, live 40% longer

Flies possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities than previously known

Scientists investigate how Venus fly trap plants shut in response to touch.

Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America’s largest animals

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