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The bizarre case of the bone-eating worms

At this all-you-can-eat whalebone buffet, female marine worms never leave once they dig in. Males never visit the buffet — they live inside the females. Bacteria within the females’ roots help the worms eat whalebone fats. A study describing the two new species of worms appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nonprofit science society.

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Gene Variants May Make Women See Red, and Burgundy

Women Say Dentist Made Them Swallow Semen

Scientists Make Madcow Prion in Lab for First Time

Driver Beaten Up for Observing Speed Limit

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"Go balloons. Go balloons!"

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Brain 'helps stop muscle damage'

[R]esearchers warn it is the brain, not the body, which controls when fatigue hits.

A team from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, writing in New Scientist, say the brain "steps in" to prevent muscle damage.

[...] The team which looked at fatigue say it is traditionally seen as the result of overworked muscles ceasing to work properly.

But they say it is actually the brain that controls the feeling.

The researchers say a body signalling molecule called interleukin-6 plays a key role in telling the brain when to slow down.

Blood levels of IL-6 are 60 to 100 times higher than normal following prolonged exercise, and injecting healthy people with IL-6 makes them feel tired.

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I missed this crap when it occurred. . . . Who does this man think he's trying to fool?