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| Sunbathing helps these bugs stay healthy Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:02 PM PDT Sunbathing may be healthy -- at least for one group of North American insects, the Western boxelder bug -- that apparently uses the activity to fight off germs. The bugs are known to group together in sunlit patches and release monoterpenes, strong-smelling chemical compounds that help protect the bugs by killing germs on their bodies. |
| Most mutations come from dad: New insights into age, height and sex reshape views of human evolution Posted: 24 Aug 2012 07:30 AM PDT Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the largest study of human genetic mutations to date. |
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