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I ate 1,000 sardines in a month and two bizarre things happened: I smelled and obtained a strange superpower. New science reveals a connection between these phenomena that blew... my... mind!

The nanozymes hypothesis proposes that mineral nanoparticles drove chemical evolution on early Earth, helping transform inert matter into life through catalytic and environmental processes.

I first noticed the lines between my eyebrows after my first winter in Toronto three years ago. The cold dried out my skin in a way I had never experienced before, and suddenly there it was: a faint ...