What do we have in common with fish, besides being vertebrates? The types of joints we (and most vertebrates) share […]
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Brains of parrots, unlike songbirds, use human-like vocal control
Skip to content A parrot called the budgerigar controls its vocalizations with a flexible system. Human speech arises courtesy of […]
Even the worst mass extinction had its oases
Some earlier plants might not have made it through the extinction since rock layers from the onset of the End-Permian […]
Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics
Skip to content I’ve got one word for you A bacterial energy storage system is modified to make polymers. Medical […]
A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
Biohybrid robots work by combining biological components like muscles, plant material, and even fungi with non-biological materials. While we are […]
Small charges in water spray can trigger the formation of key biochemicals
Skip to content Charges cause water droplets in an early-Earth atmosphere to build up pre-life chemicals. We know Earth formed […]
In one dog breed, selection for utility may have selected for obesity
Skip to content In one dog breed, selection for utility may have selected for obesity Selecting trainable dogs may have […]
How whale urine benefits the ocean ecosystem
A “great whale conveyor belt” Credit: A. Boersma Migrating whales typically gorge in summers at higher latitudes to build up […]
“Wooly mice” a test run for mammoth gene editing
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what […]
AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence
Skip to content Intelligence, ±artificial We already have an example of general intelligence, and it doesn’t look like AI. There’s […]