🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Hold onto your butts, because one day you might be breathing through them. Scientists have tested out enteral ventilation—a possible method of administering oxygen with a liquid delivered through the rectum that is then absorbed into …
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There were some indications that the same thing is true in fish, where the elimination of equivalent hox genes also interfered with the formation of the rays at the ends of fins. This would suggest that digits formed by elaborating on a genetic system that already existed in order to produce fins. However, when a US-French team started looking at …
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When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s “SORB,” the Small Overlap Rigid Barrier test, launched in 2012, many automakers were caught flat-footed, with vehicles that had been Top Safety Picks now scoring poor ratings in the new test. SORB was a humongous shakeup for the car world, with automakers all redesigning their vehicles to handle the challenge — sometimes at …
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