peptide insulin alpha-amanitin fatal liver failure

Peptides can be medicine or deadly toxins

“Peptide” names a kind of molecule, not whether it is helpful or safe. The group includes insulin, a medicine, and alpha-amanitin, a peptide found in death-cap mushrooms that can cause fatal liver failure.

An image can use photons that never touched the object

A quantum effect called entanglement can create an image using photons that never touched the object. Those photons are linked to another set that did touch it, allowing the image to be built from that connection.

Namibia made English official despite few native speakers

At independence in 1990, Namibia made English its sole official language, even though virtually no one there spoke it as a native language. The government chose it as a symbolically neutral alternative to German and Afrikaans, which it linked to colonialism and apartheid. German, Afrikaans, and Indigenous languages were designated national languages.

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Peptides can be medicine or deadly toxins

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