2025 • Sep 18
You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish
Making digits seems to involve gene activity that was needed to make a cloaca. ...
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2025 • Sep 12
New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂
Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways. ...
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2025 • Sep 02
A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution
A structure like those found on water striders' legs keeps a robot out of the water. ...
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2025 • Aug 31
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
A 3D reconstruction of the Shroud of Turin, "jelly ice," regenerating snail eyes, and more ...
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2025 • Aug 28
New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur
A species known only by a single rib turns out to be covered with meter-long spikes. ...
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2025 • Aug 23
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues
Words you'll never speak still cause activity in the brain's speech centers. ...
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2025 • Aug 22
For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits
Neuroscientists find people who don't enjoy music, study their brain activity. ...
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2025 • Aug 21
Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back
Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages. ...
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2025 • Aug 20
Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years
Ancient teeth reveal that a stimulant has been used since the Bronze Age. ...
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2025 • Aug 09
New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater
It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract. ...
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2025 • Aug 09
For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite
The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force. ...
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