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Learn about how we might be flushing the secret to anti-aging down the toilet, how cyborg cockroaches could save your life one day and how mushrooms may be talking to each other!

The connection between poop and aging.

• \u201cFecal Transplants Reverse Hallmarks of Aging in the Gut, Eyes, and Brain\u201d by The University of East Anglia
  • https://scitechdaily.com/fecal-transplants-reverse-hallmarks-of-aging-in-the-gut-eyes-and-brain/
• \u201cFecal Microbiota Transfer Between Young and Aged Mice Reverses Hallmarks of the Aging Gut, Eye, And Brain\u201d by Aim\xe9e Parker, Stefano Romano, Rebecca Ansorge, Asmaa Aboelnour, Gwenaelle Le Gall, George M. Savva, Matthew G. Pontifex, Andrea Telatin, David Baker, Emily Jones, David Vauzour, Steven Rudder, L. Ashley Blackshaw, Glen Jeffery & Simon R. Carding
  • https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-022-01243-w

Search and rescue roaches.

• \u201cRobotised insects may search collapsed buildings for survivors\u201d by The Economist
  • https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/robotised-insects-may-search-collapsed-buildings-for-survivors/21808326
• \u201cS'pore team turning cockroaches into life-saving cyborg bugs at disaster sites\u201d by Clara Chong
  • https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/spore-team-turning-cockroaches-into-life-saving-cyborg-bugs-at-disaster-sites

Mushroom talks.

• \u201cLanguage of Fungi Derived From Their Electrical Spiking Activity\u201d by Andrew Adamatzky
  • https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211926
• \u201cMushrooms may Communicate with Each Other Using Electrical Impulses\u201d by Elizabeth Gamillo
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mushrooms-may-communicate-with-each-other-using-electrical-impulses-180979889/
• \u201cFungi Appear to Talk in a Language Similar to Humans\u201d by Hannah Osborne
  • https://www.newsweek.com/fungi-language-communication-talk-similar-humans-1695146
• \u201cThe Fungus Among Us May Have Their Own Mushroom Language\u201d by Melissa Truth Miller
  • https://nerdist.com/article/mushrooms-fungus-may-communicate-via-language-50-words/
• \u201cDo Trees Talk to Each Other?\u201d by Richard Grant
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/

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