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- Odor receptors discovered in lungs: Just like ones in your nose but instead of conjuring up a cup of coffee they might make you cough
- Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier sensitive to climatic variability
- 'Be different or die' does not drive evolution
| Posted: 02 Jan 2014 12:23 PM PST Your nose is not the only organ in your body that can sense cigarette smoke wafting through the air. Scientists have showed that your lungs have odor receptors as well. The odor receptors in your lungs are in the membranes of flask-shaped neuroendocrine cells that dump neurotransmitters and neuropeptides when the receptors are stimulated, perhaps triggering you to cough to rid your body of the offending substance. |
| Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier sensitive to climatic variability Posted: 02 Jan 2014 11:20 AM PST The thinning of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is much more susceptible to climatic and ocean variability than at first thought, according to new research. |
| 'Be different or die' does not drive evolution Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:18 PM PST A new study has found that species living together are not forced to evolve differently to avoid competing with each other, challenging a theory that has held since Darwin's Origin of Species. |
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