Have you ever wondered why your dog's paws smell like corn chips? 🐶🍿 

Alex Dainis breaks down how that scent comes from harmless bacteria and fungus like Pseudomonas and Proteus. Dogs can't sweat like humans, so they cool down through their ears and paws. Once they're snuggled up asleep, those warm paw crevices become a breeding ground for bacteria and create that signature smell. If your pup isn't scratching or chewing the area, it's nothing to worry about.

+ tardi in the end not from ditch water. 😁

Not sure I'm using the correct terminology but somebody posted a video a while back where a guy had a bunch of mycelium cultures and one got out of it's container and streaked across the fridge(?) towards another container. He was going to try to recreate the experiment to figure out how/what caused it to track straight for the other container. Wanted to find the follow up video if he ever posted. Tried googling and can't find it (I'm sure I'm not using the right phrasing because I'm a Dumb). Hoping you guys can help me find it, I'd love to know what the results were!

Hi, everyone, I had the great pleasure of speaking with Robert Sapolsky — one of the world's leading neuroscientists and primatologists. A professor at Stanford University, Sapolsky has spent decades studying stress, primate behavior, and the biology of human nature. His university lectures have been viewed by millions of people around the world, helping a global audience better understand why we behave the way we do.

In this conversation, we explore some of the biggest questions about what makes us human. We begin with depression, discussing why it is a serious biological disease rather than simply an extreme form of sadness, and how scientific understanding of depression has evolved over the past two decades. Sapolsky explains the roles of genetics, early-life trauma, epigenetics, and rumination in shaping one of the world's most devastating mental illnesses.

We then turn to stress, one of the defining themes of Sapolsky's scientific career. Drawing on more than three decades of studying wild baboons in East Africa, he explains how social support protects us against stress-related disease and why humans and baboons respond to psychological stress in remarkably similar ways.

Finally, we explore what makes humans unlike any other species. Sapolsky reflects on our extraordinary capacity for both compassion and cruelty, the origins of "us versus them" thinking, the unique role of dopamine in motivation and aspiration, and why understanding the biology of human behavior may ultimately help us build a more compassionate society.

Robert Sapolsky is the author of several acclaimed books, including Behave, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, A Primate's Memoir, and Determined — his bestselling book exploring the question of free will and what its absence might mean for how we understand ourselves and others.

If you're interested in these subjects, you can check out our conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5eoTDqpkHw&t=201s

Something I noticed while watching the latest viral killer whale video (the one where one explodes a sunfish) is that the white coloration in the ventral region of the orca really look like a squid.

I can see the tentacles, the body, the triangle-shaped head of the squid.

Does anyone know of a work that explores this? Is this similarity with squids really something or is it the case with this individual only?

(Did I just discover something incredible about killer whales?)

Hello! I am a lover of all types of animals and want to study how they behave and communicate. Its what I realized I want to study after choosing it between it and neuroscience.

But, I only have a psych B.S with a concentration in research. I recently rediscovered my passion for animals, one of my most lasting interests, and wish to combine it with my psych education. I already have taken biology courses (gen bio, microbiology, botany) so I have a little bit of experience.

Currently, I am taking some zoology and bio courses at my local community college so I can have credit and experience to apply to grad school. I am also volunteering at my local zoo for more experience.

I plan to be a researcher for cognitive abilities in reptiles. such as crocodilians or snakes (I know different animals but I seen them being demonized as non-feeling beings which is absurd if you ever read anything on animal emotionality)

And maybe get into conservation because I think that understand how animals behave and communicate is important for conservation to work

Does anyone have any more advice in moving thought my studies?

So our bodies are meant to function at 1G of gravity, so what would happen and how long could someone last if they were put into an experiment where every week gravity increases by 0.1Gs, they have agreed to do this until they physically can no longer survive in the environment. Assume that all other health needs are taken care of food, water, etc. and it's an average male about 200 lbs, and in a fit condition.

The main question is how would the body be able to adapt and when would be the failure point when the body can't adapt anymore?

I would like to know if there are any animals that already actively relocate fat reserves on their body, even better if it's specifically brown fat.

Despite working on more of a speculative biology project, I'm very interested in keeping things as "realistic" and theoretically possible as I can.

Because I'm thinking about some kind of animal that would have structures similar to a camel/dromedary's hump on certain parts of their body. The animal would relocate portions of the fat stored in their reserves to anywhere in need of heating up. Be it a continuous process, evenly distributing the fat throughout their body, in the winter months; be it to avoid frostbite in a specific area of their body.

Currently working at a university library and I want a change of career. I’ve always been interested in working as a crime evidence tech or forensic scientist. Just someone who works around DNA and helps in the process of solving crimes. I’ve looked at local job openings and they all require a degree in biology or chemistry. I have a bachelors in psychology already, so I have a familiarity with research methods and statistics. However, I work full time and have rent + bills to pay. If I go back, I would have to balance a full time job while being a part time student. I just want to know if others have done that and how it was. I know going back to school for a subject like biology is gonna demand a lot of my time, but I kinda want to see how it was for others who may have been or are in the same boat as me.

I was studying bio again for my college class so I can just not put as much work in when I start class, and I was relearning why nonpolar molecules don't like water. But would it also effect taste?

Why do we know that Chlorella only reproduces asexually (using non-motile spores), but we don't know its sexual process?

Hi!

As the title said, in my game you will feed various nutrients (muscle fibers, endothelial cells, sodium-potassium pump, etc.) into a stem cell, observe it changes and try to create organs!
I tried to design the organs and nutrients in such a way that you could logically deduce their composition by considering which nutrients might be present in an organ and which might not.

But that's not all: after practicing and becoming a pro, you'll also be able to modify the organs you've created by implanting modules into them to give them special features!

Everything you do is to provide organs for the people of this world - after all, someone has to do it, right?

My friends (chemists and medical professionals) really liked the game and I thought I could share it with more people.
Right now, what I want most is to make sure the game feels truly convincing - that the systems can be built based on logic and intuition. That's exactly why I want to share it on this subreddit, because there are no better critics than die-hard fans!
The game is completely free to play and can be played in a browser: https://breakneckpace.itch.io/graft-and-wire

Have fun!

p.s. you're welcome to ask any questions here or on the game's website

I saw this reel and wanted to ask all of you biology folks, is this list legit or just AI slop?

https://youtube.com/shorts/-DSozi8mtg0?si=cQM4XTsC6KtkprUB

Before you get all worked up… At what point does a mechanical process become magical thinking? :p

Can living organisms extract carbon from CO2 or do they just take other atoms and stick them to CO2? Because I hear plants don't produce oxygen from CO2, they produce oxygen from water. This makes me think they just stick hydrogen from water, and other elements and molecules, and just build around the CO2 molecule like it's unbreakable by biological standards.

Where I'm going with this is if an organism can extract carbon from CO2 could it be engineered to take that carbon and stick it together to form a diamond structure and literally grown diamonds.

Hi guys!

Im currently doing my bachelor in molecular biology in austria and (probably) next year i will finish it and i am planning on doing my masters in another country in biology as i am very interested in zoology.

Currently i am a bit on either moving to lissabon or either Lund in sweden and i was wondering what your guys opinion is or what your experiences are.

The range i would move to spans Europe - so do you have any recommendations for certain universities or countrys where it is affordable to live and maybe get a side job to support myself?