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Saturday Citations: Birthday cetaceans; quantifying children's play experiences; placebos still effective

This week, we learned that across the animal kingdom, sperm cells have a short shelf life. A study implicated autoantibodies in the development of long COVID. And among its other drawbacks, the weedkiller glyphosate may foster the spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Saturday Citations: Birthday cetaceans; quantifying children's play experiences; placebos still effective
Image: Phys.org
This week, we learned that across the animal kingdom, sperm cells have a short shelf life. A study implicated autoantibodies in the development of long COVID. And among its other drawbacks, the weedkiller glyphosate may foster the spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Originally published at Phys.org

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