It seems so obvious that someone should have thought of it decades ago: Since parasites have plagued eukaryotic life for millions of years, their prevalence likely affected evolution. Psychologist Marco Del Giudice of the ...
Neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's, affect millions of people in the United States, and the cost of caring for people who live with these conditions adds up to hundreds of billions ...
Biochemistry
Nov 21, 2023
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Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel, with Vanderbilt University, has shaken up the paleontology community with a study she conducted that resulted in evidence of some dinosaurs having neuron density in their brains equal ...
The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates than with invertebrates. ...
Evolution
Jun 24, 2022
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Large brains have long differentiated humans and primates from other mammals and there is a clear evidence that brain mass increased through time.
Evolution
Jul 9, 2020
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An international team led by scientists at the University of Sydney has demonstrated nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain.
Nanophysics
Apr 21, 2023
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Despite their excellent auditory capacities, dogs do not attend to differences between words that differ only in one phoneme (e.g., "dog" vs "dig"), according to a new study by Hungarian researchers of the Eötvös Loránd ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2020
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They can't tell fortunes and they're useless with the stock market but bats are quite skilled at predicting one thing: where to find dinner.
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2020
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Multitude of conspiracy theories people believe in all over the world is astonishing. They actually accompany each significant event: a catastrophe, assassination, death of a famous person or, currently, the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Mathematics
Sep 28, 2021
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Imperial College London researchers used micro-CT scanning technology to reveal how specific parts of bumblebee brains grew abnormally when exposed to pesticides during their larval phase.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2020
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