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Vulture blood resists anthrax and cholera. Scientists now know why

Vulture blood resists anthrax and cholera. Scientists now know why

Vultures eat carrion full of bacteria that would kill any other animal. Their stomach is as acidic as battery acid.

Listen · 0:201 min readAriel Kuczma23/09/2026

Nerve-to-muscle communication fails with age – which may help explain loss of strength

Nerve-to-muscle communication fails with age – which may help explain loss of strength

NASA: Mars programme technology captures CO2 in breweries

NASA: Mars programme technology captures CO2 in breweries

Researchers: bacterium in Kent outbreak picked up genes from other bacteria

Researchers: bacterium in Kent outbreak picked up genes from other bacteria

Science

NASA: Mars programme technology captures CO2 in breweries

NASA: Mars programme technology captures CO2 in breweries

Three new snake species from Ecuador. One was found in a cemetery

Three new snake species from Ecuador. One was found in a cemetery

Vulture blood resists anthrax and cholera. Scientists now know why

Vulture blood resists anthrax and cholera. Scientists now know why

History

The Romans had their own ‘Reddit’. Pompeii’s walls are full of comments

Cleopatra lived closer to the launch of the iPhone than to the building of the pyramids

World

There is an island in Japan with more rabbits than people

Health

Nerve-to-muscle communication fails with age – which may help explain loss of strength

Nerve-to-muscle communication fails with age – which may help explain loss of strength

Researchers: bacterium in Kent outbreak picked up genes from other bacteria

Researchers: bacterium in Kent outbreak picked up genes from other bacteria

Why do we forget why we walked into a room? It's the 'doorway effect'

Curiosities

Honey from pharaohs' tombs is still edible