Why biological studies on queer people do more harm than good
Read now →When studying vulnerable groups, scientists should always be aware of the context their studies take place in
Meet Antonia Maury, astronomy's renegade who changed the way we classify stars
Read now →Maury was part of a group of brilliant women known as the "Harvard Computers"
Scientists around the world had mice make the same decision three million times over
Read now →Because reproducible research is a key goal of this global collaboration
Your brain isn't the same in virtual reality as it is in the real world
Read now →VR is widely used to study the brain, but it isn't the same as real life — and this has real-world consequences
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You live in a mostly 2D world, but the map in your brain charts the places you've been in 3D
Read now →Place cells in the brain light up in familiar places, both on the ground and climbing in the air
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Move over, mice: sheep have the superior brains for neuroscience research
Read now →Sheep brains more closely resemble human brains than do mouse brains
Community scientists are digitally catching insects instead of collecting specimens
Read now →This is great for the insects, but high-quality specimens are important for research
Killing germs with slime bacteria M. llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis
Read now →The very real soil microbe uses chemistry to hunt other microbes
Tweeting about research results in three times more citations
Read now →Social media is proven to help share new science with the public
Buckeye butterflies get their color from their scales
Read now →Nanostructures combine with pigments to form all the colors in the rainbow
Fruit fly glue is sticky, no matter how you slice it
Read now →Adhesives found in nature could have applications for us
Squid bamboozle predators with elaborate ink-based dancing and weaving
Read now →They also deploy multiple moves and tactics to avoid being eaten
What happens when a scientist investigates results that are "too beautiful to be true"?
Read now →Inside Tsuyoshi Miyakawa's attempts to improve reproducibility in science
Horses lose four of their toes in the womb
Read now →About four weeks after conception, horse embryos still have five toes, just like humans
On #WorldPangolinDay, we celebrate this roly-poly scaly anteater, one of the world's most trafficked mammals
Read now →But celebrations are marred by the recent suggestion that pangolins may be the SARS-CoV-2 carrier
Fish use "blood-doping" to survive in icy water
Read now →To keep their blood from becoming too thick, cold-water fish release blood cells from the spleen only when needed
My cat's coat is mostly white with dark tabby patches. What's going on?
Read now →A researcher uses a tweetorial to figure out the underlying genetics for their cat's coat
Specialized nerves let squid tentacles strike with lightning speed
Read now →Squid have different types of nerves in appendages with different functions
Hermit crabs are using old bottle caps and plastic as shells — and it's killing them slowly
Read now →Around 570,000 crabs become entrapped in debris each year on the Henderson and Cocos (Keeling) islands
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Meet the colour-changing green forester moth: a living water vapour sensor
Read now →Researchers used microscopy techniques to understand how the green forester moth changes from a shiny green to a rusty red colour
"The Nemo Effect" doesn't exist: Pixar movies increased clownfish googling, not clownfish purchasing
Read now →People were more interested in fish after it came out, but not more likely to set up an exotic aquarium
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Scientists capture the inner workings of the click beetle's explosive jumps
Read now →Jumps like this would shatter your bones. Click beetles use soft materials instead
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Scientists discover brain cells that remember where escape routes are
Read now →These neurons track safe places so mice can escape threats in a split-second
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Scientists put visions of letters in blind people's brains
Read now →Stimulating the brain in specific ways can generate mental images of simple shapes
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Two mini microscopes watched a mouse’s brain move its body in real time
Read now →The NINscope will help researchers uncover how neurons in different regions of the brain interact with each other
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Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain
Read now →New research contradicts long held assumptions about coding
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We could soon be harvesting anti-viral antibodies from tobacco plants
Read now →"Plantibodies" represent a new avenue for treatments against fast moving viruses like influenza or coronavirus
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While you sleep, specialized neurons in your brain help you forget
Read now →Forgetting has long been considered a passive process in the brain, but new research puts that idea to bed
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Artificial lights are disrupting firefly mating, putting them on the road to extinction
Read now →Light pollution impacts mating success and courtship behavior in fireflies, says recent study
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Don't worry, moderate drinking probably isn't shrinking your brain
Read now →Both brain size and drinking habits are linked to genes, not directly to each other
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Sorry, your houseplants aren't actually purifying your apartment's air
Read now →New research finds that you would need between 10 and 1000 plants per meter squared to gain any real air quality benefits
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Connecting brains to machines may let bacteria come along for the ride
Read now →Brain-machine interfaces like Elon Musk's Neuralink have come a long way, but biological limitations remain
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Can AI help diagnose depression? It's a long shot
Read now →At the moment, machine intelligence is just as subjective as human intelligence
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Daylight saving time is bad for your health
Read now →We should go to year-round standard time, as the sun intended
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Feel like quitting? Blame your brain cells
Read now →Understanding the biological mechanisms of “giving up” in fish may teach us about complex human behaviors
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