Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
How does a normal brain look at any given age? Researchers struggled to answer this question for lack of data, until now …
Chimpanzees drum tree buttresses to communicate over long distances. But which tree bangs best? It's a chimp's choice …
Hot under the collar? Save that energy to charge your phone, or your laptop. Such is the idea behind organic thermoelectrics …
An artificially engineered pumpkin-shaped nucleus, lutetium-149, has the shortest directly measured half-life of any ground-state proton emitter …
The first human guinea pigs of COVID-19 have revealed important new information concerning how the virus moves through the body …
No need to repeat yourself on Mars. The red planet has been revealed to have two speeds of sound depending on frequency …
Death by strobing beams of energy: A cannibalistic star system has been discovered in which a large star sucks the matter from a smaller one …
Polly wants a long life? Polly gets a big brain. Parrots live far longer than other birds. Big thinking could be behind their longevity …
Monkey metropolis jive: Orangutans that live in high-density populations are vocally more original and unpredictable compared to their rural cousins …
A load of hot air: Mysterious odd radio circles might just be enormous explosions of hot gas, a million light years across …
Microplastics have for decades been found in Earth’s rivers and seas. Now they have been detected even closer to home, in the human bloodstream …
Dennis Sullivan, one of the most influential figures of modern topology, has been awarded the Abel Prize for his contributions to the field …
Fifty years ago, sea turtle populations in the Seychelles were nearly decimated. Now they flourish. How so? By taking turtle soup off the menu, for one …
Glad to have your thoughts: Electrocorticograms can read what a person is imagining, raising hopes of communicating with severely paralyzed patients …
Some 9,000 years ago, the painted skeletons of Çatalhöyük were exhumed to take part in mysterious rituals before being reburied …
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