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Something to sneeze about: Democratic voting in African wild dog packs
A pack of African wild dogs shares an impala.
Credit: Megan Claase
Scientists studying African wild dogs in Botswana have found members of this endangered species...
Clever cockatoos bend hooks into straight wire to fish for food
Goffin's cockatoo bending a hook into wire.
Credit: Bene Croy
In the early 2000s the New Caledonian crow Betty in Oxford shocked the world when she...
Humans still evolving, large-scale study of genetic data shows
New research finds that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer's disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that...
Paleontologist aids in new discovery 33 years after finding fossil
Reconstruction of Morturneria.
Credit: S. J. Godfrey
In 1984, Sankar Chatterjee - curator of paleontology for the Museum of Texas Tech University - and his student,...
Metallurgy likely has more than one birthplace
Copper bead from Çatalhöyük. It consists of very pure copper in metal form, as found in nature.
Credit: M. Radivojevi?, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
When and where...
Was the primordial soup a hearty pre-protein stew?
Discovering paths the chemicals of life likely took on Earth could make it possible to calculate probabilities of life on other planets.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
The primordial...
Zika virus kills brain cancer stem cells
Brain cancer stem cells (left) are killed by Zika virus infection (image at right shows cells after Zika treatment). A new study shows that...
The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed: Dogs have self-awareness
Dogs have the ability to recognize themselves, research shows. (Stock image)
Credit: © Africa Studio / Fotolia
A new research carried out by the Department of...
‘Extreme’ telescopes find the second-fastest-spinning pulsar
The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a network of thousands of linked radio antennas, primarily located in the Netherlands, has discovered two new millisecond pulsars by...
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability
A selfie of the NASA Curiosity rover at the Murray Buttes in Gale Crater, Mars, a location where boron was found in light-toned calcium...
Contagious yawning more closely associated with perceptual sensitivity than empathy
Participants of the study were asked to judge whether the people in the photos were yawning or not.
Credit: Chia-huei Tseng
Contagious yawning is a universal...
