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24 votes
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By selectively breeding forty generations of silver fox over the course of sixty years, researchers managed to make them as friendly as dogs
64 votes -
What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?
36 votes -
No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong
7 votes -
Rats have an imagination, new research finds
57 votes -
An invasive fish with teeth, that can breathe air, live up to three days outside of water, move short distances on land, and grow three feet long has been found in Louisiana
30 votes -
Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans
36 votes -
Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find
50 votes -
Cambridge-Caltech team of scientists claim to have created synthetic human embryos from stem cells at conference; work not yet published
29 votes -
Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia
14 votes -
Wasabi linked to ‘substantial’ memory boost
28 votes -
The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults
27 votes -
Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them
20 votes -
Can lab-grown brains become conscious?
13 votes -
Genetic engineering was meant to save chestnut trees. Then there was a mistake.
23 votes -
Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
51 votes -
Why prehistoric humans needed no braces: Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale sign of an underlying epidemic
19 votes -
Ethics questions arise as genetic testing of embryos increases
19 votes -
New study - scent of tears from female humans reduces revenge seeking and aggression in males, similar to patterns observed in other mammals
31 votes -
Scientists are totally rethinking animal cognition
12 votes -
Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies
23 votes -
Creatures that don't conform: Slime molds and their fascinating existence
28 votes -
New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
5 votes -
Why Koko the gorilla couldn't talk
13 votes -
First clinical trial confirms HIV vaccine using Moderna inoculation
22 votes -
Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta
21 votes -
A gene for our big brains was rescued from DNA garbage bin
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Apparently snow lepoards bite their tails more than you'd think
@payoletter: snow leopards biting their tails: a thread
20 votes -
The world inside you
11 votes -
Nine of the weirdest penises in the animal kingdom, from the echidna’s four-headed unit to the dolphin’s prehensile member
17 votes -
A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
14 votes -
GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
10 votes -
Evidence for bias of genetic ancestry in resting state functional MRI
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI [blocked] Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional...
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI
[blocked]Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI
[not blocked]Someone posted this on Reddit. It purports to be a study which shows that it is possible to identify a person's genetic ancestry (in other words, their "race") by observing their brain activity.
Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. We hypothesize that these observed differences are a result of known ethnicity-related variations in head and brain morphology
This feels problematic, in that it gives support to the racist idea that different "races" think differently. But I don't know enough myself to believe this study or debunk it. I present it for more knowledgeable people than myself to dissect and discuss.
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Where do kangaroos come from, why do they hop, and should we kill them?
6 votes -
How scientific taxonomy constructed the myth of race
11 votes -
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial
10 votes -
The sealed garden that was only watered once in fifty-three years
9 votes -
Human body might be able to pick up on Earth's magnetic field
9 votes -
‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
30 votes -
Parrots taught to video call each other become less lonely, finds research
10 votes -
Why having a 'weak' hand is good, and why they may be better described as "support" hands
6 votes -
British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing
12 votes -
Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor
8 votes -
Scientists have managed to restore circulation and cellular functions in pig brains hours after death, which raises questions about our understanding of what it means to die
10 votes -
Alligator dissection
9 votes -
Chimp moms play with their offspring through good times and bad
11 votes -
The Great Southern Reef is an extensive and valuable ecosystem … that not very many people know about
14 votes -
Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time
19 votes -
Most White Americans’ DNA can be identified through genealogy databases
7 votes -
Two fungal species—one pathogenic, one benign—are actually the same
10 votes