biology
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This Survey Asked Neuroscientists If Memories Can Be Extracted From the Dead. Here’s What They Said
The allure and terror of transferring your consciousness to a computer has long been fodder for cyberpunk novels and billionaire-backed…
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This Hawk Figured Out Traffic Signals to Ambush Its Prey
Birds continue to be amazing. Crows can use tools and hold grudges against specific people. Magpies can recognize themselves in…
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Some Megalodons Reached 80 Feet—But They Weren’t Built Like Great Whites, Research Suggests
15 million years before movies like Jaws and Open Water gave swimmers the heebie-jeebies, a prehistoric shark species called Otodus…
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The Saga of South Carolina’s Escaped Lab Monkeys Isn’t Over Yet
Local authorities say a “sizable group” of escaped primates is still active outside a South Carolina facility linked to “brain…
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This Worm Has 100 Butts
In Greek mythology, the hydra is a creature with many heads. In Norse mythology, Odin rides Sleipnir—a horse with many…
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Netflix Awake Horror Trailer: Gina Rodriguez Can’t Sleep
See, if Gina Rodriguez had gotten some sleep she’d remember you don’t hold guns that way.Screenshot: Netflix Trailer FrenzyA special…
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Polar Bear and Grizzly Bear Hybrids May Be Growing More Common Because of the Climate Crisis
Image: Guy Clavel/AFP and Dani Pozo/AFP (Getty Images) What do you get when you cross a polar bear and a…
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Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days
A chimeric human-monkey blastocyst. Building on previous experiments, an international team of scientists has created chimeric human-monkey embryos, which were…
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Geneticists Get Closer to a Complete Axolotl Genome
An axolotl in a regenerative therapy lab in Dresden in 2015.Photo: ROBERT MICHAEL/AFP (Getty Images) Its adorableness aside, the Mexican…
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Early Humans Were Walking Around With Ape-Like Brains, Study Finds
One of the Dmanisi skulls on exhibit in Leiden in 2009.Photo: VALERIE KUYPERS/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) Humans can…
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