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It’s a term we hear a lot but not everyone knows how to define it and why it’s important to get as many people vaccinated as possible.
Read it »Otters are born not knowing how to swim. So their mothers carry them through the water for 6 months. When the mama otter needs to hunt for food, she’ll swaddle her baby in seaweed to keep it safe and floating in one spot until she returns.
Read it »Take a look at how tiny microbes can spread from human to human across the world in this video from 2012.
Read it »This video has a really cool explanation of the evolution of ocean predators and the origin of the shark. Learn about the insane biology of the hammerhead shark.
Read it »mRNA vaccines are a new technology in delivering vaccination but they’ve actually been in development for decades. They work by swapping out a single block of ingredients that maps to the disease they’re targeting. In the future, they may help us develop vaccines within weeks of an outbreak occuring.
Read it »Certain butterflies don’t have a long range of flight but they need to move from one part of their habit to another. When humans create things like highways, we can cut butterflies off from other habitable areas. Because all species rely on diversity to survive, this can lead to some terrible effects on butterfly populations. […]
Read it »Vaccines are developed in a variety of ways. Most commonly, we think of a vaccine as containing a bit of the disease it’s fighting. That little bit of the disease teaches our immune system to develop antibodies. But the Covid-19 vaccines work differently. They send a message to our RNA to help build our immune […]
Read it »This is some amazing slow-motion footage that shows bats swooping down to drink water. It explains how bats use their echolocation to find water.
Read it »One way to stop an epidemic (even of pandemic proportions) is through vaccinations which increase immunity within the population and prevent viruses from spreading. We call that collective protection, “herd immunity.” Depending on how infectious a virus or disease is, herd immunity needs a greater or lesser proportion of the population to be vaccinated. For […]
Read it »Jellyfish are older than dinosaurs. And they aren’t really fish. They are a zooplankton — animals that drift in the ocean. There are more than 1000 species of jellyfish and they are wildly diverse. Learn how they’ve existed for so long.
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