This illustration represents the overfitted brain hypothesis of dreaming, which claims that the sparse and hallucinatory quality of dreams is not a bug, but a…
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Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal…
This is a representative image of cultured dissociated hippocampal neurons transiently expressing psychLight1 and psychLight2. Scale bar, 20 mm. Credit: Calvin Ly Psychedelic drugs have…
This image shows trails left by sponges as they crawl across the seafloor. Credit: AWI OFOBS team, PS101 The aquatic animal known as the sponge…
This image shows Murembo, a Great Tusker from Tsavo, Kenya’s largest protected area. Credit: John Marais A study reported in the journal Current Biology has…
This image shows a chimera human-monkey blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected…
This illustration shows an artist’s rendering of a pterosaur (Alanqa saharica). Credit: Davide Bonadonna Little is known about azhdarchid pterosaurs, gigantic flying reptiles with impressive…
The cryptocurrency market has been abuzz as Bitcoin gains popularity with investors, reaching an all-time high of over $60,000 apiece in March. In a commentary…
This image shows an octopus in active sleep. Credit: Sylvia L. S. Madeiros Octopuses are known to sleep and to change color while they do…
You’ve heard of animals that can lose and then regenerate a tail or limb. But scientists reporting in the journal Current Biology on March 8 have now…
This photo shows untreated wastewater near settlements in peri-urban Hyderabad. Credit: Dishaad Bundhoo The first global-scale assessment of the role ecosystems play in providing sanitation…
Dreams take us to what feels like a different reality. They also happen while we’re fast asleep. So, you might not expect that a person…
This photo shows a bat with a GPS tag on its back. Credit: Teague O’Mara Although scientists knew that some bats could reach heights of…
This photo shows a brown tree snake in a tree. Credit: Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological Survey Researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 11, 2021,…
Human white blood cells, known as leukocytes, swim using a newly described mechanism called molecular paddling, researchers report in the Biophysical Journal. This microswimming mechanism…
This photo shows a closeup of the wolf pup’s head, showing her teeth. Credit: Government of Yukon While water blasting at a wall of frozen…
This photo shows a woman handling tableware made from bamboos and food industry waste. Credit: Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Scientists have designed a set of “green”…
This photo shows a side view of a transparent hydrogel-aerogel cooling bilayer. Credit: Zhengmao Lu and Ningxin Chen Scientists have developed a bilayer passive cooling…
This photo shows a young female gelada grooming the dominant breeding male of her group. Credit: Rachel Perlman Most mammals — including humans and other…
This photo shows a frontal view of an ogre-faced spider, showing their large eyes. Credit: Jay Stafstrom Ogre-faced spiders, named for their massive eyes, hide…