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Beeftopia shares a report from CBS News: The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from a bug that could devastate its beef industry, decimate wildlife and even kill household pets. This weird science has worked well before. The targeted pest is the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding and distribution of adult male flies -- sterilizing them with radiation before releasing them. They mate with females in the wild, and the eggs laid by the female aren't fertilized and don't hatch. There are fewer larvae, and over time, the fly population dies out. It is more effective and environmentally friendly than spraying the pest into oblivion, and it is how the U.S. and other nations north of Panama eradicated the same pest decades ago. Sterile flies from a factory in Panama kept the flies contained there for years, but the pest appeared in southern Mexico late last year. [...] The USDA expects a new screwworm fly factory to be up and running in southern Mexico by July 2026. It plans to open a fly distribution center in southern Texas by the end of the year so that it can import and distribute flies from Panama if necessary. The New World screwworm fly is a tropical species, unable to survive Midwestern or Great Plains winters, so it was a seasonal scourge. Still, the U.S. and Mexico bred and released more than 94 billion sterile flies from 1962 through 1975 to eradicate the pest, according to the USDA. The numbers need to be large enough that females in the wild can't help but hook up with sterile males for mating. One biological trait gives fly fighters a crucial wing up: Females mate only once in their weekslong adult lives. "A similar approach to certain species of mosquito is being debated," adds Beeftopia. "The impact on ecosystems is unclear."

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NEW BLOOD TYPE DISCOVERED AND ONLY ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD HAS IT. In a groundbreaking discovery, French scientists have confirmed a brand new human blood type called ‘Gwada Negative’ found in a woman from Guadeloupe, a French Caribbean island. She is currently the only known person on the planet with this blood type, making it the 48th officially recognized blood group system. First flagged in 2011 and confirmed in 2025 by France’s national blood agency, researchers found her red blood cells carry a unique genetic mutation that makes her blood incompatible with every other known type. In other words, she can only receive blood from herself. This rare case is not just a medical marvel it’s a reminder of the incredible complexity and diversity of the human body. submitted by /u/ayramashiro to r/BeAmazed [link] [comments]

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From cheap TV sets to slightly more expensive ones, Doctor Who has been a constant icon of sci-fi television. The time-traveling hero, known only as The Doctor, has been saving galaxies for decades (perhaps millennia, from his perspective). With his TARDIS, disguised as a police box, he’s encountered everything from dinosaurs to Daleks.

The release of Hulu’s excellent Predator: Killer of Killers proves that animation is well suited for the epic sci-fi franchise. While the Predator movies were loaded with plenty of violence, so much more delicious carnage was made possible through computer animation. There was more freedom to stage more elaborate locations, action sequences, and gallons of blood and guts.