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Category: Biology
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 […]
Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs
On top of that, when analyzing the beaks, the team noticed a distinct pattern. The wear wasn’t uniform. The right […]
Meet Bruce, the “beak-jousting” parrot
Bruce lost his upper beak in an accident when he was very young. Ximena Nelson The key to Bruce’s success […]
OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
To address LLMs’ tendencies toward sycophancy and overenthusiasm, OpenAI says it has tuned the model to be more skeptical, so […]
Ugandan chimps split into two factions, then killed rivals
Even those factors might not have been sufficient, but the authors also identified three possible catalysts. In 2014, five adult […]