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Sep 18 • 9 months ago

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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Sep 12 • 9 months ago

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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Sep 02 • 10 months ago

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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Aug 31 • 10 months ago

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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Aug 28 • 10 months ago

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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Aug 23 • 10 months ago

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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Aug 22 • 10 months ago

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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Aug 21 • 10 months ago

Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back

Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages. ...

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Aug 20 • 10 months ago

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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Aug 09 • 10 months ago

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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Aug 09 • 10 months ago

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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