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The 'forager gene' of humans and fruit flies works in practically the same way

No time like mealtime.

Neanderthal diet revolved around meat, new study finds

Caveburgers, anyone?

Activating one gene in the brains of male mice helps reverse depression

Sorry ladies.

Grasses steal neighbors' genes to one-up other species

"They're OUR genes, tovarish plant" -- grasses.

Desert ants' complex behavior is actually built from very simple interactions

The colonies work similarly to a brain, actually.

Giant African Titanosaur had a heart-shaped tail

The perfect Valentine's dinosaur -- a massive Titanosaur!

For the first time, we can "see" the physical forces of cells in action

This could revolutionize the study of life sciences.

How poppy petals create striking colors despite being thinner than your skin

In news today: male beetles think poppy flowers are hot. Science!

The world is running out of insects -- because of us -- and it will lead to a “catastrophic collapse"

They may be creepy crawlies, but we need them.

A new study explains how snakes lost their legs

They didn't lose the genes for limbs -- they're just blocked.

Fish can recognize themselves in the mirror. Does that mean they're self aware?

The study casts an unexpected doubt on our very definition of self-awareness.

Butterflies are genetically wired to mate with others like them

Surprisingly, these butterflies could teach us a thing or two about humans.

Newly discovered toothless dinosaur was surprisingly cute

Some scientists say it was more a bird than a dinosaur.

How orcas hunt -- and some surprising findings

The males hunt more than the females, researchers found.

New software allows researchers to CATCH any known virus in a sample

"Tools like CATCH will help us and others detect outbreaks earlier and generate more data on pathogens that can be shared with the wider scientific and medical research communities," the authors say.

Over 100 new species of bacteria discovered in your gut

I had a gut feeling they would.

Climate change will recolor much of the oceans by 2100, MIT research suggests

It's not good news.

Oldest feather does not belong to Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx remains a key link in dinosaur-bird evolution, but maybe it wasn't all that unique.

We can eradicate malaria -- but we need to use new tricks

Improvise, adapt, eliminate.

Paleontologists discovered a new species of ancient shark -- and it was so, so tiny

"[Its] teeth are the size of a sand grain. Without a microscope you'd just throw them away," says one of its discoverers.

The worst of multiple sclerosis can be avoided or delayed with early treatment

The study is the first to provide evidence that currently-available treatments can delay the progress of MS.

Over half of the world's wild coffee faces extinction, new research finds

We're not facing a shortage of coffee right now, but scarcity is possible in the near future.

Why scientists want to engineer spicy tomatoes

I mean, who wouldn't want to try a hot tomato?

Your brain pays more attention to objects it knows are small -- no matter how large they seem

Want more attention? Science says, be smaller.

The rogue Chinese scientist who made the first gene-edited human babies could face death penalty

He Jiankui is currently confined to his home and under armed guard.

Bees use a small number of neurons to count, and they're one of the best counters we know

They're so cute and fuzzy, too <3.

Exercise is as good as medicine for lowering blood pressure in patients with hypertension

For some patients, even low-intensity exercise could get them off meds.

Irish dirt might cure the world of (most) multi-drug-resistant bacteria

Dirt me uuuuupppp.

Novel vaccine might spell the end of Zika

Good riddance.

New sensor backpacks could turn bees into crop-monitoring drones

BEEEE cause we can, that's why.

Building blocks of life can spontaneously form in outer space

Biology -- it may literally be out of this world.

Coastal erosion reveals incredibly well-preserved dinosaur footprints in southern England

It's like Disneyworld for paleontologists.

Blind creature that buries its head in the sand named after Donald Trump

The resemblance is uncanny.

First flowering plants may have appeared 50 million years earlier than previously thought

Charles Darwin called the origin of flowering plants an "abominable mystery".

Tourists might be bringing diseases to Antarctica's penguins

Tourists are bringing dangerous pathogens to the Antarctic.

Researchers want to vaccinate bees so we don't run out of food

I can’t BEElive this!

"Prehistoric Pompeii" answers the question of when animals first moved on land

It's so sad though :(.

How pink poop and satellites revealed a giant penguin colony

Don't eat the pink snow.

Thawing Canadian Arctic permafrost is releasing "substantial amounts" of mercury into waterways

In the Canadian Arctic, mercury isn't rising only in thermometers.

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have

The whole is larger than the sum of the parts.

Giant marsupial predator was "unlike any living animal"

It was a fierce beast.

Dracula ants have the fastest body parts known to man: their jaws

After all, they are called Dracula ants.

City frogs are more attractive than their countriside cousins, new study shows

Female frogs like city boys, a new study finds.

Research identifies a gene that makes our brains (and those of primates) unique

Smarts, we got'em!

252 million years ago, climate change nearly wiped out life on Earth; something similar is happening today

If this sounds a bit alarming... it should.

MIT designs and builds a plant-robot plantborg that can move towards light

Its name is Elowan and it probably comes in peace.

"Wearable microbrewery" could serve as radiation exposure marker

Yeast badges could be the radiation sensors of the future.

The recipe for life may have another ingredient

Scientists are cooking life.

Google's AI algorithm could usher in new age of protein understanding

We're entering a new age of scientific breakthrough, and this could be absolutely huge.

China pulls the plug on rogue scientist who genetically modified twin human babies

The whole odd affair is unprecedented.

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