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Animals’ Wildly Varying Reactions to the Smell of Death
Cadaverine and putrescine are the chemicals responsible for the dead-flesh stench.
Nature, the IT Wizard
Nature manages information, the currency of life, with exquisite efficiency.
Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters
From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash.
Reading the Book of Life in Prehistoric Dung
“Paleoscatologist” Karen Chin has uncovered the humble origin of life after dinosaurs.











