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Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars
When they’re being eaten, bean plants release chemicals that draw in parasitic wasps. For decades, scientists have understood that plants […]
Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items
Skip to content “It’s a reminder of how human activity is changing the natural world in unanticipated ways.” “Hey baby, […]
Severed sea cucumber appendages don’t seem to die
They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living. Organs, arms, appendages, and other complex tissues usually decay […]
How pigeons exploit magnetic fields for navigation
Electron microscopy image of pigeon liver tissue shows hepatic macrophage (blue) in contact to nerve fiber (yellow), which enables them […]
Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves. In hours of underwater video footage from […]
Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology. A chicken embryo develops inside one of […]
Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA
Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans […]
Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal
It is actually very metal Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal. Scorpions are armed with dual […]
Researchers try to cut the genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids
Using AI tools, the team reworked part of the ribosome to need one less amino acid. The genetic code is […]