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Identifying the bee’s knees of bumble bee diets

A new study has identified the bee’s knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower …

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New insights into the complex neurochemistry of ants

Ants’ brains are amazingly sophisticated organs that enable them to coordinate complex behaviour patterns such as the organisation of colonies. Now, a group of researchers …

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Dinosaurs were the first to take the perspectives of others

When someone near you turns their head towards something in the environment, you likely can’t help to follow their gaze direction. This reaction is observed …

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Jaw shapes of 90 shark species show: Evolution driven by habitat

An international research team led by Faviel A. López-Romero of the University of Vienna investigated how the jaw shape of sharks has changed over the …

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Invading insect could transform Antarctic soils

A tiny flightless midge which has colonised Antarctica’s Signy Island is driving fundamental changes to the island’s soil ecosystem, a study shows. Research by experts …

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Global warming puts whales in the Southern Ocean on a diet

In the month of June, when winter bites in the southern hemisphere and the sea around the Antarctic freezes over, right whales swim north. Many …

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Singing humpback whales respond to wind noise, but not boats

A University of Queensland study has found humpback whales sing louder when the wind is noisy, but don’t have the same reaction to boat engines. …

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Basic ‘toolkit’ for organ development is illuminated by sea star

One of the most basic and crucial embryonic processes to unfold in virtually every living organism is the formation of hollow, tubular structures of various …

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Uniformity of prey can yield spider-eat-spider world

A limited menu of prey may weave a tangled food web by emboldening wolf spiders of multiple species to dine on each other and even …

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Predict what a mouse sees by decoding brain signals

Is it possible to reconstruct what someone sees based on brain signals alone? The answer is no, not yet. But EPFL researchers have made a …

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