Carnivorous plants
Carnivorous plants are really interesting and much more wide spread than most people realize. The exact number of species varies, but most put the number at around 500. You can read more about them here: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Carnivorous_plant or in Adamec (1997) “Mineral nutrition of carnivorous plants:…
Venomous snail
These snails have a very complex venom that is among the most deadly venoms for humans, rivaling several of the most venomous snakes. However, scientists have also started exploring potential medicinal uses for various parts of the venom. Dutertre et. al. writes more about that…
Vaccines
The British Society for Immunology has a nice and understandable explaination of vaccines here: https://www.immunology.org/celebrate-vaccines/public-engagement/guide-childhood-vaccinations/how-vaccines-work If you want a slightly more scientific version, take a look at: Clem (2011) Fundamentals of Vaccine Immunology, available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068582/
Bacillus cereus
You can read more about B. cereus in this article. —– Bottone (2010) “Bacillus cereus, a volatile human pathogen” https://doi.org/10.1128/CMR.00073-09
Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is an increasing problem that we all must do our part to stave off. You must of course use antibiotics whenever it’s necessary, but at the same time you should work with your doctor to limit the use of antibiotics, and use them…
Bacteriophages
Would you like to know more? —– Clokie, Millard, Letarov and Heaphy (2011) Phages in nature https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.1.1.14942
Scorpions
Scorpions are cool. You can read more about how they glow under ultra violet light here and here —– Jesslyn Shields, Howstuffworks “Why Scorpions Glow Under Black Light” https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/why-scorpions-glow-under-black-light.htm last accessed 6. february 2021 American Chemical Society. “Scorpions make a fluorescent compound that could help…
Egg Size
Want to learn more?: https://www.audubon.org/news/why-kiwis-egg-so-big Also, take a look at this egg-size comparison. —– Sam Dean “Why Is the Kiwi’s Egg So Big?” https://www.audubon.org/news/why-kiwis-egg-so-big last accessed 6. february 2021 Egg-size comparison on Wikipedia: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bird_egg#/Size last accessed 6. february 2021
Antioxidants
Antioxidants are a thing. If you want to read more about antioxidants in coffee specifically, this is a good starting point. For more general information on antioxidants, Wikipedia is a good place to start. —– Yashin et. al. (2013) Antioxidant and Antiradical Activity of Coffee…
Radiotrophic fungi
Would you like to know more?read more at NCBI or Wikipedia —– NCBI: Dadachova and Casadevall (2008) Ionizing radiation: how fungi cope, adapt, and exploit with the help of melanin https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2008.09.013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus last accessed 6. february 2021