Meilan Solly
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Activist group Friends of the Earth study reports farms 48 times more toxic than 25 years ago, blames neonicotinoids
[T]he United States’ agricultural landscape is 48 times more toxic to insects than it was 25 years ago. Per a ...
‘Super smeller’ woman boosts effort to create early diagnosis tool for Parkinson’s disease
Long before Les Milne began exhibiting the telltale signs of Parkinson’s disease, his wife Joy—a so-called “super smeller” capable of detecting ...
Why other primates can’t talk: It’s all in the brain
Compared to humans, most primates produce a limited range of vocalizations: At one end of the spectrum, there’s the Calabar angwantibo, ...
Nimble human fingers evolved to smash animal bones in search for marrow
Scientists have long linked the evolution of the human hand—unique for its lengthy opposable thumbs and dexterous fingers—to the rise ...
