Questions tagged [biology]
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Use this tag for general biology questions, but also use more specific life science tags to accompany this one if applicable.
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Does the honey swirl test for adulterated honey show the honey remembers the honeycomb?
The honey swirl test1, 2, 3 claims real honey remembers the shape of the honeycomb. You can bring this out by swirling water over the honey. After 30 seconds you'll see a honeycomb pattern. Is this ...
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Was a bright orange shark discovered in Costa Rica?
According to this article by the BBC (dated: 26th August 2025):
A bright orange shark was recently discovered in Costa Rica (near Tortuguero National Park)
Scientists say that this is the first time ...
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Are there naked mole rats that do no work for the colony until rainy season, when they plug the hole to the burrow with their bodies?
This claim been repeated on X, reddit, quora, imgur, and other social media sites and blogs, often with the following quote:
My favorite is that in every colony of naked mole rats there are a couple ...
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Will my bladder burst if I hold my pee?
A Man Ruptured His Bladder After Holding in Pee for 18 Hours says a man drank 10 beers, fell asleep, and then woke up with a burst bladder.
I was told it's not possible to hold your pee until your ...
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Are LLM AIs making people dumber?
Tech Startups makes the claim
MIT study finds that ChatGPT is making people dumber; 83% of ChatGPT users can’t recall what they just wrote
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The numbers are hard to ignore:
Brain activity fell ...
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Did a Chinese football fan die after voluntarily staying awake for 11 days straight?
Daily Mail, 22 June, 2012
A Chinese football fan died after going 11 nights without sleep as he
tried to watch every single kick of the ball of Euro 2012.
Jiang Xiaoshan, said to be supporting ...
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Can the dikaryotic mycelium of Agaricus bisporus develop chlamydospores under certain conditions?
In 2022, a 12th grade student from a private school in Colombia made the claim about Agaricus bisporus:
When in unfavorable conditions, the dikaryotic mycelium will develop the chlamydospores
The ...
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Is CoComelon hyperstimulating and harmful for children?
I have a kid. He's enamored by CoComelon. The ability of CoComelon to captivate a child seems unique when compared to other shows. According to Newsweek
Many parents reported addictive behaviors in ...
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Does chromosome 6 deletion cause the patient to not feel pain, hunger, and fatigue?
In this 7-years-old Belfast Telegraph article there's a video posted to Russia Today about a girl called Olivia Farnsworth who has the genetic abnormality "chromosome 6 deletion" which ...
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Is it possible to use microbes to grow protein from air and electricity?
Solar Foods claim they can use microbes to ferment an edible protein powder.
Their process is described as follow:
The process takes a single microbe, one of the billion different ones
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Is there a 29.5 day cycle of neutrotransmitters released from the claustrum in our brains?
According to multiple 'spiritual' websites (like this one), there is a 29.5 cycle in the human body. Somehow reacting to the moon (which also has a 29.5 day cycle), the claustrum in the brain would ...
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Did the body of Saint Bernadette remain intact after 50 years, despite the conditions it was in?
According to this 2019 article in the National Catholic Register, The Marvelous Preservation of St. Bernadette, the body of Saint Bernadette had limited decay, despite:
given the close examinations, ...
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Is abiogenesis virtually impossible?
Dr Eugene Koonin published a paper in 2007, The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life in the journal Biology Direct.
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Do single families of insects have more species than all vertebrates combined?
This article about a caterpillar specialist claims:
There are roughly sixty-five hundred species of mammals, nine thousand species of amphibians, and eleven thousand species of birds. These are what ...
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Is an Instant Pot sufficient for "scientific sterilization"?
According to this promotional post by InstaPot,
Who knew that Instant Pot can provide scientific-grade sterilization? (Actually, we did.)
Swensen and her research team concluded that “store-bought ...
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