“And then you have the Spinosaurus which was kind of weird in general,” Rowe says. “There was a study by […]
Category: Biology
Cockatoos know 30 distinct dance moves
Illustration of the 10 most common recorded dance movements. Credit: Lubke et al., 2025, PLOS One/CC-BY 4.0 They also analyzed […]
Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet
A collection of new studies on gene activity shows that AI tools aren’t very good. Gene activity appears to remain […]
Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging
We did not need a bigger boat Go shark fishing on the RV Garvin, get hooked on the ideas behind […]
Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot
Intuitive Surgical, an American biotechnology company, introduced DaVinci surgical robots in the late 1990s, and they became groundbreaking teleoperation equipment. […]
Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways
An EEG signal of sleep is associated with better performance on a mental task. The guy in the back may […]
A neural brain implant provides near instantaneous speech
Focusing on sound production instead of word choice makes for a flexible system. The participant’s implant gets hooked up for […]
Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus
Skip to content Gripping and releasing irregular surfaces is harder than it might seem. Some of the most ingenious tech […]
Changing one gene can restore some tissue regeneration to mice
Regeneration is a trick many animals, including lizards, starfish, and octopuses, have mastered. Axolotls, a salamander species originating in Mexico, […]
Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm
Altering chemical modifications of DNA lets the DNA from two sperm make a mouse. For many species, producing an embryo […]