Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
When a brown dwarf was spotted close to our galaxy, its properties confounded scientists until further research revealed it wasn’t weird, only old …
A nice Chianti for the young man? In the past 80 years, tadpoles of the Australian cane toad have developed cannibalistic tendencies at an alarming rate …
The tardigrade’s gait resembles that of insects 500,000 times its size—cute, but confusing. Could there be a common ancestor between them? …
A young, female hunter-gatherer, buried 7,200 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, might complete a genetic jigsaw …
From interfering with local elections in Belgium, to reinventing what’s possible in Super Mario 64, supernovae have a lot to answer for …
A wearable patch can predict risks of stroke and heart attack and is capable of sensing signals up to 14cm below the skin’s depth …
Could genetic patterns be linked to sexuality? Possibly, according to a study using 23andMe data. But isolating such a link is no simple matter …
Farmed animals get sick quick. In carnivorous animals, a host of genes meant to respond to disease are nonfunctioning, spelling eventual risks for humans …
Do we all know that slowed down, higher-pitch, infantile voice that parents use to address their young? Well, it turns out that bats do the same …
Bad behavior in behavioral psychology: a widely cited paper on honesty is retracted due to dishonest data sourcing …
Don’t take me, I’m just a healthy cell! A device that detects cancerous tissue in vivo is set to revolutionize pancreatic cancer surgery …
Our home, north of the Yukan … A butchered wooly mammoth has revealed the northernmost known human site of the Paleolithic period …
Yet another breakthrough at the Large Hadron Collider, as a rare tetraquark is spotted—the LHC’s 62nd novel hadron …
Talking my language! Good news for the code-illiterate as OpenAI announces Codex, a translator of English to programming languages …
To swim fast and slow, get stiff like a fish. A fish’s tail-stiffness means efficient energy usage and a better control of its speed …
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