It’s a bird! It’s a crab! No, it’s a fish that can taste with its legs.
Some sea robins, a group of fishes with two winglike fins and six crablike legs, use their legs to dig in sand and find buried prey with a sense much like…
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Couples Therapy – Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Like people, bacteria have their preferences when it comes to relationships. Some are totally independent, while others prefer company. Salmonella and many other kinds of bacteria are of the social type: They can live and even thrive inside a…
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Skeletal remains of Franklin expedition crew member identified
Researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University have identified the skeletal remains of James Fitzjames who served on the HMS Erebus during Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Northwest Passage expedition.
The Franklin expedition was a…
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Some of Earth’s extinct giants may have been smaller than thought
Body size estimates of some of Earth’s larger-than-life species may have been just that: a little bit too large for real life.
Take Dunkleosteus, an armored fish with a powerful bite force that lived around 360 million years ago…
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Brazilian Fossils Reveal Jaw-Dropping Discovery in Mammal Evolution
Newswise — The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists from the University of Bristol, alongside colleagues from Argentina and Brazil, has led to a significant…
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Language agents help large language models ‘think’ better and cheaper
The large language models that have increasingly taken over the tech world are not “cheap” in many ways. The most prominent LLMs, GPT-4 for instance, took some $100 million to build in the form of legal costs of accessing training data,…
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545-Million-Year-Old Crater Could Reshape Our Understanding of Earth’s Geological History
Geologists from Virginia Commonwealth University and elsewhere have found new evidence of bolide impact signatures within specimens from the Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure in the Northern Territory, Australia.
A…
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A vital ocean current is stable, for now
The ocean’s circulatory system may not be doing as poorly as previously thought.
A vital ocean artery known as the Florida Current, a bellwether for the ocean’s ability to regulate Earth’s climate, has seemingly been weakening…
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A materials scientist seeks to extract lithium from untapped sources
Electric vehicles promise to help wean us off of fossil fuels, but they introduce a new problem: how to get enough of the lithium that EV batteries require (SN: 5/7/19).
Materials scientist Chong Liu of the University of Chicago has…
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A biogeochemist is tracking the movements of toxic mercury pollution
One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at the base of the Andes mountains. When biogeochemist Jacqueline Gerson first traveled there in 2017, she found herself on a…
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