When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement. It is drawing on a lifetime of bodily experience – where their hand is in…
AI language models, used to generate human-like text to power chatbots and create content, are also revolutionizing biology by treating complex biological data like a language. Language models are increasingly used, for example, to…
Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely available software tool that enables…
Researchers have found that a patterned optical layer can track a structure’s three-dimensional vibrations in real time with only a few detectors.
That result points to a cheaper way to watch buildings and bridges for trouble before conventional…
The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates—amniotes and lissamphibians—which occupy markedly different ecological niches.
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Researchers have found that many of the brightest colors in sea slugs come from microscopic crystal layers in their skin rather than pigments.
That finding recasts their vivid skin as a physical system that can generate many colors from one…
Researchers have identified 13 previously hidden symbiotic stars in data from Gaia, the European Space Agency’s space telescope that maps stars across the Milky Way, confirming that a missing stellar population was there all along.
Their…
Nasa launched Artemis II on a historic crewed mission to the moon.
The 10-day test flight, which will not land on the moon, is a mission packed with milestones. The mission includes…
Capturing methane from cow manure sounds like a straightforward climate win: cover the manure lagoon, trap the gas, and turn it into fuel instead of letting it escape into the atmosphere.
A new study suggests that, in general, this is exactly what…