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The liquid that our mouths produce isn’t just a lubricant. It plays an active role in how we perceive taste and can influence what we choose to eat, researchers are discovering.

The same taste receptors found on the tongue are in the stomach, intestines and elsewhere, too. What are they doing there? Well, a lot.

Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil. It may be a vital ecosystem — one that you can help protect. Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Diario EL PAíS

At the NFL’s Big Data Bowl, scientists compete to develop new stats that better capture player performance

The insects participate in elaborate courtships, are devoted parents, occasionally eat each other and have a gregarious nature. Learn more about this in our recent article republished by Smithsonian Magazine.

Viruses called bacteriophages infect bacteria by injecting their genetic material and later, new phages burst out of the bacterium. But these phages and bacteria can also live in harmony. https://lnkd.in/gFCrKB89 #knowablemagazine #sciencejournalism #phageome

In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d evolved to withstand. https://lnkd.in/etQkiRCK

Miles away from the ocean, projects are afoot to clean up salty groundwater and use it to grow crops. Some say it’s a costly pipe dream, others say it’s part of the future.

Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists seek the math that can explain the universe's particles and forces.