Life
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Animals
Noise may disrupt a bat’s dinner
Mechanical cacophony can drown out the whispers of moving insect prey.
- Neuroscience
Caffeine shakes up growing mouse brains
When pregnant mice consumed caffeine, their offspring had altered neurons and faulty memory.
- Science & Society
Flu researchers plan to repeat controversial work
The scientists who made the H5N1 strain transmissible between ferrets intend to do the same with H7N9.
- Animals
Climate change may bring dramatic behavior shifts
Shifting temperatures and rainfall are expected to alter animal lifestyles from the poles to the tropics.
- Neuroscience
One sleepless night weakens resolve in the face of doughnuts
Sleep loss changes brain activity and food preferences.
- Animals
Spider’s personality matters when job hunting
Boldest individuals of social species tasked with seeking out prey.
- Life
Evolution of mammalian monogamy remains mysterious
Two large studies reach opposing conclusions about why males stay with females.
- Neuroscience
Camping resets internal clock
After a week in the wild, people went to bed and got up earlier.
- Life
Tigers meet, mix in forest corridors
In India, narrow strips of wild land connect small groups of cats.
- Animals
Oxygen boost aided carnivore evolution in Cambrian explosion
Atmospheric change and rise of predators caused burst in complexity of life.
- Neuroscience
Brainwashed
The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld.
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