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According to recent research guided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, coastal water pollution transfers to the atmosphere in the form of sea spray aerosol, which can reach people other than beachgoers, surfers, and swimmers.

Credit: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London and Callum Mair Researchers from LSTMs Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) have led an international team investigating the evolutionary origins of a novel defensive trait by snakes - venom spitting - and demonstrated that defensive selection pressures can influence venom composition in snakes in a repeatable manner. In a paper published in the journal Science, the team, which includes authors from the UK, USA, Austr...