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This may help an arm quickly distinguish food from rocks or poisonous prey, Harvard University molecular biologist Nicholas Bellono and his colleagues report online October 29 in Cell.
HOW OCTOPUSES ‘TASTE’ THINGS BY TOUCHINGJONATHAN LAMBERTOCTOBER 29, 2020SCIENCE NEWSPhthalo green, chrome yellow, cadmium red are lovely, but they come with a pernicious price—all are composed of heavy metals poisonous to humans in varying degrees.
IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF ENVIRONMENTALISM - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENANASTASIA BENDEBURY & MICHAEL SHILO DELAYOCTOBER 7, 2020NAUTILUSFor most Earthly life, phosphine is poisonous because “it interferes with oxygen metabolism in a variety of macabre ways.”
PHOSPHINE GAS FOUND IN VENUS’ ATMOSPHERE MAY BE ‘A POSSIBLE SIGN OF LIFE’LISA GROSSMANSEPTEMBER 14, 2020SCIENCE NEWSSome newts living in the western United States are poisonous.
TOXIC GERMS ON ITS SKIN MAKE THIS NEWT DEADLYERIN GARCIA DE JESUSJUNE 23, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSSupertasters are literally born with a tongue that is unusually sensitive to the bitter chemicals found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, which tricks their brain into thinking that the food is poisonous.
SCIENCE OF ‘SEINFELD’LGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 15, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSThe island is especially favoured; it contains no poisonous or hurtful insects or reptiles.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERThat is the reason that the silliest, the meanest, the most poisonous girl can always find a husband if she is healthy.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONXetholine caniopus is a drug; not rare, not common, but violently poisonous.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSShe might struggle for her freedom, but she could not hope to avoid the darting, poisonous fangs of the snake.
THE ADVENTURE GIRLS AT K BAR OCLAIR BLANKIt could scarcely send its poisonous fangs through her heavy boot, she reminded herself desperately.
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