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domestication syndrome is one of the coolest findings from recent genetics

Octopus and squid evolution is officially weirder than we could have ever imagined

Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.

In a surprising twist, scientists have discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.

This is weird because that’s really not how adaptations usually happen in multicellular animals. When an organism changes in some fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation - a change to the DNA.

The findings have been published in Cell.

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why do you waste your time like this

because i literally have no life 

ha ha get it because i’m a planet with no life on it ha ha ha 

being uninhabitable is kinda lonely tho tbh someone move me closer to the sun pls

no ur not im pluto

I’m Pluto

So ungrateful. 

im a hipster guys, im about the size of russia i could go to starbucks

an airplane is a ufo too unless you can identify what kind of airplane it is

This is happening now ya’ll.

A sand pendulum that creates a beautiful pattern only by its movement.

But  why does the ellipse change shape?

The pattern gets smaller because energy is not conserved (and in fact decreases) in the system. The mass in the pendulum gets smaller and the center of mass lowers as a function of time. Easy as that, an amazing pattern arises through the laws of physics.

Jupiter has 12 newly discovered moons!! I really relate to Valetudo, for some reason…