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2026
nautil.usDoes Nurture Trump Nature in Disease Risk Prediction?Does Nurture Trump Nature in Disease Risk Prediction?: Social determinants of health can match or exceed genetic risk of common diseases
nautil.usHow Fruit Flies Manage Their Exceptionally Long SpermResearchers at the Flatiron Institute used high-speed microscopy and mathematical modeling to study how fruit fly sperm—nearly as long as the fly's entire body—remain orderly inside a hair-thin seminal vesicle. Rather than tangling, the sperm form wave-like collective flows, propelling themselves by