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Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study revealed. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay:

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study revealed. Learn more on #WorldBeeDay:

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A new Spinosaurus species uncovered in northern Niger appears to have been a wading predator of fish like its close relatives, but it lived as many as 1000 kilometers inland from the Tethys Sea. The fossil find may represent a third phase of evolution for this group of massive, fish-eating dinosaurs. Learn more this week in Science:

A new Spinosaurus species uncovered in northern Niger appears to have been a wading predator of fish like its close relatives, but it lived as many as 1000 kilometers inland from the Tethys Sea. The fossil find may represent a third phase of evolution for this group of massive, fish-eating dinosaurs. Learn more this week in Science:

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If the promise of a tasty meal makes you want to jump for joy, you may relate to the loggerhead turtle. These animals have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields. Learn more on #WorldTurtleDay:

If the promise of a tasty meal makes you want to jump for joy, you may relate to the loggerhead turtle. These animals have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites based on Earth’s magnetic fields. Learn more on #WorldTurtleDay:

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Researchers have developed a #DeepLearning system called BioEmu that rapidly generates diverse protein conformations, enabling fast, accurate insights into protein flexibility and function. Learn more this week in Science:

Researchers have developed a #DeepLearning system called BioEmu that rapidly generates diverse protein conformations, enabling fast, accurate insights into protein flexibility and function. Learn more this week in Science:

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The better humans have gotten at making plastic, the more challenging it has been to unmake it—especially the pieces too small to see. Long after plastic bottles and bags break down, they keep fragmenting into particles so tiny, conventional filtration can’t touch them. They drift through treatment plants and into waterways unimpeded. There, they enter the food chain, and ultimately the body, where they have been found in human organs and are increasingly linked to various diseases such as cancer. Enter nanobots. In a new study, researchers show that tiny magnetic machines made of cagelike materials can tumble through water, sweeping up nanoplastics via the same electrostatic attraction that makes a balloon cling to your hair. Learn more: News from Science

The better humans have gotten at making plastic, the more challenging it has been to unmake it—especially the pieces too small to see. Long after plastic bottles and bags break down, they keep fragmenting into particles so tiny, conventional filtration can’t touch them. They drift through treatment plants and into waterways unimpeded. There, they enter the food chain, and ultimately the body, where they have been found in human organs and are increasingly linked to various diseases such as cancer. Enter nanobots. In a new study, researchers show that tiny magnetic machines made of cagelike materials can tumble through water, sweeping up nanoplastics via the same electrostatic attraction that makes a balloon cling to your hair. Learn more: News from Science

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In mitochondria, respiratory supercomplexes (blue) pump protons across crista membranes to create an electrochemical gradient, fueling adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase (pink) to regenerate ATP—the energy currency of life. Now, cryo–electron tomography captures these supercomplexes in their native organization, illuminating how the coordinated action of these molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion. Learn more this week in Science:

In mitochondria, respiratory supercomplexes (blue) pump protons across crista membranes to create an electrochemical gradient, fueling adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase (pink) to regenerate ATP—the energy currency of life. Now, cryo–electron tomography captures these supercomplexes in their native organization, illuminating how the coordinated action of these molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion. Learn more this week in Science:

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Penguins are some of the world’s most charismatic birds. They look like they’re wearing suits. They appear to fly underwater. And they waddle like sumo wrestlers. Now, scientists say they’ve finally pinpointed the muscle behind this endearing gait: an enigmatic and long-misunderstood tissue that forces the bird’s lower limbs to stay close to its body near the knees. The adaptation not only contributes to penguins’ signature waddle, it also helps keep their bodies streamlined when underwater, allowing them to move efficiently on both land and sea. Learn more: News from Science

Penguins are some of the world’s most charismatic birds. They look like they’re wearing suits. They appear to fly underwater. And they waddle like sumo wrestlers. Now, scientists say they’ve finally pinpointed the muscle behind this endearing gait: an enigmatic and long-misunderstood tissue that forces the bird’s lower limbs to stay close to its body near the knees. The adaptation not only contributes to penguins’ signature waddle, it also helps keep their bodies streamlined when underwater, allowing them to move efficiently on both land and sea. Learn more: News from Science

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This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹 Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design:

This week in Science, researchers delve into the #mathematics that shapes growing rose petals. 🌹 Explore our latest issue—featuring a new print design:

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Our 1 May 2025 issue introduces a print redesign—the magazine’s first redesign in 11 years. Developed entirely in-house, this project brought together our staff’s editorial and design expertise. (THREAD 🧵)

Our 1 May 2025 issue introduces a print redesign—the magazine’s first redesign in 11 years. Developed entirely in-house, this project brought together our staff’s editorial and design expertise. (THREAD 🧵)

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The tiny predator Lacrymaria olor owes its shape-shifting ability to an “origami-like” cellular architecture, a new Science study finds. The results offer a glimpse into geometrical control of behavior in single cells. Learn more in this week's issue:

The tiny predator Lacrymaria olor owes its shape-shifting ability to an “origami-like” cellular architecture, a new Science study finds. The results offer a glimpse into geometrical control of behavior in single cells. Learn more in this week's issue:

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Researchers have genetically altered a mouse to express traits reminiscent of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, including a long, coarsely textured coat, to create the woolly mouse. News from Science

Researchers have genetically altered a mouse to express traits reminiscent of the long-extinct woolly mammoth, including a long, coarsely textured coat, to create the woolly mouse. News from Science

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A new approach uses diffused orientation fields to help robots transfer skills across curved objects of diverse shapes and sizes, enabling them to peel and slice varied fruits and vegetables. Learn more in Science Robotics:

A new approach uses diffused orientation fields to help robots transfer skills across curved objects of diverse shapes and sizes, enabling them to peel and slice varied fruits and vegetables. Learn more in Science Robotics:

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A recent Science Robotics study demonstrates that haptic feedback from wearable upper body exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. Learn more:

A recent Science Robotics study demonstrates that haptic feedback from wearable upper body exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. Learn more:

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Some microorganisms may have little trouble surviving being blasted into space on planetary debris when an asteroid hits. That finding comes from subjecting a particularly hardy species of desert bacteria to a simulation of the immense forces produced by an asteroid collision. The research lends support to the idea that life jettisoned off world could spread to and seed new worlds by clinging to space rocks. Learn more: News from Science

Some microorganisms may have little trouble surviving being blasted into space on planetary debris when an asteroid hits. That finding comes from subjecting a particularly hardy species of desert bacteria to a simulation of the immense forces produced by an asteroid collision. The research lends support to the idea that life jettisoned off world could spread to and seed new worlds by clinging to space rocks. Learn more: News from Science

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A recent Science Robotics study demonstrates that haptic feedback from wearable upper body exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. Learn more:

A recent Science Robotics study demonstrates that haptic feedback from wearable upper body exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. Learn more:

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Researchers reported last year that Ethiopian wolves enjoy licking nectar from red hot poker flowers, documenting this behavior for the first time in a large predator. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives

Researchers reported last year that Ethiopian wolves enjoy licking nectar from red hot poker flowers, documenting this behavior for the first time in a large predator. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives

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Free housing. Free food. Free protection from predators. There are a lot of perks for beetles and other tiny organisms that live covertly inside ant colonies. But as it turns out, there is a potential downside, too: no way out. Researchers report that a species of rove beetle has taken a one-way evolutionary journey, evolving a clever way to disguise itself that it’ll never be able to undo. If they ever stop refreshing their cloak, they will die. The findings convincingly show how tight knit ecological cohabitation can become locked in. Learn more:

Free housing. Free food. Free protection from predators. There are a lot of perks for beetles and other tiny organisms that live covertly inside ant colonies. But as it turns out, there is a potential downside, too: no way out. Researchers report that a species of rove beetle has taken a one-way evolutionary journey, evolving a clever way to disguise itself that it’ll never be able to undo. If they ever stop refreshing their cloak, they will die. The findings convincingly show how tight knit ecological cohabitation can become locked in. Learn more:

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A new Science Robotics study highlights electrofluidic fiber muscles that can support flexion and extension of a robot arm for a human handshake.

A new Science Robotics study highlights electrofluidic fiber muscles that can support flexion and extension of a robot arm for a human handshake.

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Up close, the army ant Eciton hamatum is part monster, part marvel. Curved mandibles jut from its bulbous head like a pair of scimitars. Six whip-thin legs, bristling with hairs and spines, suspend its slender thorax above the ground. Then there are the insect’s innards—the tiny brain, the musculature filling virtually every nook and cranny of the exoskeleton, the digestive tract like a thread running the length of the body. The view of this species, and 791 others, comes thanks to a particle accelerator and years of painstaking work by a team of biologists. Learn more: News from Science

Up close, the army ant Eciton hamatum is part monster, part marvel. Curved mandibles jut from its bulbous head like a pair of scimitars. Six whip-thin legs, bristling with hairs and spines, suspend its slender thorax above the ground. Then there are the insect’s innards—the tiny brain, the musculature filling virtually every nook and cranny of the exoskeleton, the digestive tract like a thread running the length of the body. The view of this species, and 791 others, comes thanks to a particle accelerator and years of painstaking work by a team of biologists. Learn more: News from Science

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Using the math of general relativity, researchers can design light patterns that guide a robot, as if it were a spacecraft bending through curved space toward a black hole. Learn more: News from Science

Using the math of general relativity, researchers can design light patterns that guide a robot, as if it were a spacecraft bending through curved space toward a black hole. Learn more: News from Science

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Researchers have designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with up to seven ingredients, more than any other printed food to date. Learn more: News from Science
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Researchers have designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with up to seven ingredients, more than any other printed food to date. Learn more: News from Science

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A new Science Robotics study highlights an autonomous approach that can characterize coral reef biodiversity, enabling an underwater robot to home in on snapping shrimp or follow a barracuda through Joel's Shoal.
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A new Science Robotics study highlights an autonomous approach that can characterize coral reef biodiversity, enabling an underwater robot to home in on snapping shrimp or follow a barracuda through Joel's Shoal.

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Neptune’s third-largest moon, Nereid, may be the only surviving intact moon from Neptune’s original satellite system, a new analysis of JWST data suggests. Learn more in Science Advances:
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Neptune’s third-largest moon, Nereid, may be the only surviving intact moon from Neptune’s original satellite system, a new analysis of JWST data suggests. Learn more in Science Advances:

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A new study reveals that an egg-laying species of worm-like amphibian nourishes its young with a lipid-rich, milk-like substance. The findings report previously unobserved behavior and offer new insight into the species’ parental care and communication.
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A new study reveals that an egg-laying species of worm-like amphibian nourishes its young with a lipid-rich, milk-like substance. The findings report previously unobserved behavior and offer new insight into the species’ parental care and communication.

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A 2024 Science study reveals that an egg-laying species of worm-like amphibian nourishes its young with a lipid-rich, milk-like substance. The findings report previously unobserved behavior and offer new insight into the species’ parental care and communication. #ScienceMagArchives
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A 2024 Science study reveals that an egg-laying species of worm-like amphibian nourishes its young with a lipid-rich, milk-like substance. The findings report previously unobserved behavior and offer new insight into the species’ parental care and communication. #ScienceMagArchives

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Buried in a museum drawer for nearly 50 years, a fist-size fossil has handed paleontologists the evidence they’d been hunting for: unmistakable claws on one of the oldest known relatives of spiders and scorpions. The fossil was recovered by an amateur paleontologist in the late 1970s in the Utah desert. The creature is a marine arthropod scientists have named Megachelicerax cousteaui (Greek for “large claw horn”), which likely resembled a bristling, multilegged ocean swimmer with a rounded head shield. Learn more: News from Science
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Buried in a museum drawer for nearly 50 years, a fist-size fossil has handed paleontologists the evidence they’d been hunting for: unmistakable claws on one of the oldest known relatives of spiders and scorpions. The fossil was recovered by an amateur paleontologist in the late 1970s in the Utah desert. The creature is a marine arthropod scientists have named Megachelicerax cousteaui (Greek for “large claw horn”), which likely resembled a bristling, multilegged ocean swimmer with a rounded head shield. Learn more: News from Science

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Physicists have now uncovered the hidden math behind these satisfying can-crushing videos. To catch what the naked eye misses, the team compressed liquid-filled aluminum beverage cans in a laboratory press, filming the carnage at 25 frames per second. The researchers found that the material behavior of the aluminum can itself drives the orderly collapse. As the metal bends outward into a ridge, it briefly softens, becoming easier to deform. But before that ridge can grow too deep, the material restiffens, making it energetically cheaper to start a fresh ring next door than to keep deepening the old one. Mathematicians call this process homoclinic snaking—a snakes-and-ladders dynamic in which the system climbs toward a new stable state, slides back, and spawns a neighboring ridge instead of catastrophically collapsing. Learn more: News from Science
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Physicists have now uncovered the hidden math behind these satisfying can-crushing videos. To catch what the naked eye misses, the team compressed liquid-filled aluminum beverage cans in a laboratory press, filming the carnage at 25 frames per second. The researchers found that the material behavior of the aluminum can itself drives the orderly collapse. As the metal bends outward into a ridge, it briefly softens, becoming easier to deform. But before that ridge can grow too deep, the material restiffens, making it energetically cheaper to start a fresh ring next door than to keep deepening the old one. Mathematicians call this process homoclinic snaking—a snakes-and-ladders dynamic in which the system climbs toward a new stable state, slides back, and spawns a neighboring ridge instead of catastrophically collapsing. Learn more: News from Science

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Physicists have now uncovered the hidden math behind these satisfying can-crushing videos. To catch what the naked eye misses, the team compressed liquid-filled aluminum beverage cans in a laboratory press, filming the carnage at 25 frames per second. The researchers found that the material behavior of the aluminum can itself drives the orderly collapse. As the metal bends outward into a ridge, it briefly softens, becoming easier to deform. But before that ridge can grow too deep, the material restiffens, making it energetically cheaper to start a fresh ring next door than to keep deepening the old one. Mathematicians call this process homoclinic snaking—a snakes-and-ladders dynamic in which the system climbs toward a new stable state, slides back, and spawns a neighboring ridge instead of catastrophically collapsing. Learn more: News from Science
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Physicists have now uncovered the hidden math behind these satisfying can-crushing videos. To catch what the naked eye misses, the team compressed liquid-filled aluminum beverage cans in a laboratory press, filming the carnage at 25 frames per second. The researchers found that the material behavior of the aluminum can itself drives the orderly collapse. As the metal bends outward into a ridge, it briefly softens, becoming easier to deform. But before that ridge can grow too deep, the material restiffens, making it energetically cheaper to start a fresh ring next door than to keep deepening the old one. Mathematicians call this process homoclinic snaking—a snakes-and-ladders dynamic in which the system climbs toward a new stable state, slides back, and spawns a neighboring ridge instead of catastrophically collapsing. Learn more: News from Science

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Last year, a baby boy with a life-threatening metabolic condition became the world’s first patient to receive a personalized gene-editing treatment. The feat could pave the way for gene editors tailored to people with unique or ultrarare mutations. Learn more: News from Science
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Last year, a baby boy with a life-threatening metabolic condition became the world’s first patient to receive a personalized gene-editing treatment. The feat could pave the way for gene editors tailored to people with unique or ultrarare mutations. Learn more: News from Science

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In November 2024, environmental police in Rochedo, Brazil, stumbled on an unexpected sight: thousands of orange-and-black bumblebee catfish scaling the slippery rocks behind waterfalls on the Aquidauana River. A week later, a team of Brazilian scientists arrived to document the unprecedented event, detailing their findings. These videos provide rare insight into the lives and migrations of these little-studied catfish, the authors said. This genus of small South American fish, which inhabits the rocky bottoms of fast-flowing streams, only became known to science in 2017. Learn more:
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In November 2024, environmental police in Rochedo, Brazil, stumbled on an unexpected sight: thousands of orange-and-black bumblebee catfish scaling the slippery rocks behind waterfalls on the Aquidauana River. A week later, a team of Brazilian scientists arrived to document the unprecedented event, detailing their findings. These videos provide rare insight into the lives and migrations of these little-studied catfish, the authors said. This genus of small South American fish, which inhabits the rocky bottoms of fast-flowing streams, only became known to science in 2017. Learn more:

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When key “housekeeper” brain cells grow in lab dishes, they spawn unusual microscopic vesicles that can move on their own and carry energy-generating organelles, a research team revealed. The biologists have dubbed their discovery zombosomes because the blobs can move like cells for a period despite lacking a nucleus, which acts as a cell's control center. The group also showed the membrane-bound messengers ferry proteins related to Parkinson’s disease, suggesting they may contribute to it and other brain disorders. Learn more: News from Science
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When key “housekeeper” brain cells grow in lab dishes, they spawn unusual microscopic vesicles that can move on their own and carry energy-generating organelles, a research team revealed. The biologists have dubbed their discovery zombosomes because the blobs can move like cells for a period despite lacking a nucleus, which acts as a cell's control center. The group also showed the membrane-bound messengers ferry proteins related to Parkinson’s disease, suggesting they may contribute to it and other brain disorders. Learn more: News from Science

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A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives
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A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives

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Butterflies suck—nectar. Walruses suck—clams. And most fishes suck everything they eat. But birds? Scientists had never seen suction—until now. Researchers report that sunbirds use suction to sip nectar. The find is also the first example of any vertebrate drinking through suction generated by the tongue alone, rather than by changing the shape of its mouth. Learn more: News from Science
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Butterflies suck—nectar. Walruses suck—clams. And most fishes suck everything they eat. But birds? Scientists had never seen suction—until now. Researchers report that sunbirds use suction to sip nectar. The find is also the first example of any vertebrate drinking through suction generated by the tongue alone, rather than by changing the shape of its mouth. Learn more: News from Science

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Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives
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Researchers say the ancient breakup of tectonic plates creates churning waves in Earth’s mantle that tumble in slow motion under the continents for tens of millions of years, sculpting topography deep within continental interiors. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives

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After gazing up at a patch of sky last night near Polaris, the North Star, astronomers completed the largest map of the universe ever created. Compiled over the past 5 years by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the map features a total of 47 million galaxies. That’s 13 million more galaxies than originally planned: a boon made possible by DESI’s ability to map galaxies across the northern sky at unprecedented speed. Learn more: News from Science
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After gazing up at a patch of sky last night near Polaris, the North Star, astronomers completed the largest map of the universe ever created. Compiled over the past 5 years by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the map features a total of 47 million galaxies. That’s 13 million more galaxies than originally planned: a boon made possible by DESI’s ability to map galaxies across the northern sky at unprecedented speed. Learn more: News from Science

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A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: News from Science
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A new study finds ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: News from Science

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If you’ve got the stomach for it, you can watch 10,000 maggots demolish a pizza in 2 hours. Thanks to this research, scientists have a better sense of how these fly larvae gobble food so quickly, a possible boon for sustainable food production. Some companies are collecting a bit of the 1.3 billion tons of food waste humans produce annually and feeding it to hordes of maggots. Once they’re plump on rotten leftovers, the larvae can be turned into high-protein food for animals such as chickens and fish that humans are more interested in eating. To study how these maggots stuff themselves on large quantities of food, researchers recorded black soldier fly larvae chowing down on orange slices in a 35-liter aquarium. The team searched for patterns in the squirming mass by tracking the flow of individual maggots with software used to model the movement of fluids. Despite the appearance of chaos, the larvae moved like water being pumped through a fountain, the researchers reported in 2019. Hungry maggots pushed toward the food from the bottom, and satiated larvae were pumped up and over the top of the pile to the back of the line. Learn more:
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If you’ve got the stomach for it, you can watch 10,000 maggots demolish a pizza in 2 hours. Thanks to this research, scientists have a better sense of how these fly larvae gobble food so quickly, a possible boon for sustainable food production. Some companies are collecting a bit of the 1.3 billion tons of food waste humans produce annually and feeding it to hordes of maggots. Once they’re plump on rotten leftovers, the larvae can be turned into high-protein food for animals such as chickens and fish that humans are more interested in eating. To study how these maggots stuff themselves on large quantities of food, researchers recorded black soldier fly larvae chowing down on orange slices in a 35-liter aquarium. The team searched for patterns in the squirming mass by tracking the flow of individual maggots with software used to model the movement of fluids. Despite the appearance of chaos, the larvae moved like water being pumped through a fountain, the researchers reported in 2019. Hungry maggots pushed toward the food from the bottom, and satiated larvae were pumped up and over the top of the pile to the back of the line. Learn more:

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49,566 views • 3 months ago

If ants could speak, the tunnels of some colonies would echo with cries of, “The queen is dead, long live the queen!” Utterly devoted to their matriarchs, these social insects sometimes go through regime change, when a usurper infiltrates an established ant colony, kills the host queen, and persuades the resident workers to serve her instead. But as scientists report, some of these so-called parasitic queens employ an even more devious strategy, one that seems lifted straight from Greek tragedy: manipulating worker ants into killing their own queen, who is, biologically speaking, also their mother. Learn more: News from Science
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If ants could speak, the tunnels of some colonies would echo with cries of, “The queen is dead, long live the queen!” Utterly devoted to their matriarchs, these social insects sometimes go through regime change, when a usurper infiltrates an established ant colony, kills the host queen, and persuades the resident workers to serve her instead. But as scientists report, some of these so-called parasitic queens employ an even more devious strategy, one that seems lifted straight from Greek tragedy: manipulating worker ants into killing their own queen, who is, biologically speaking, also their mother. Learn more: News from Science

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Are you celebrating #PiDay with pie ... or do you prefer cake? Researchers have designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with more than π ingredients. Learn more:
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Are you celebrating #PiDay with pie ... or do you prefer cake? Researchers have designed a robot that can create and cook a cake with more than π ingredients. Learn more:

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Last year in Science Robotics, researchers reported the development of Third Thumb—a robotic appendage that, when trialed by members of the general public, was a big hit. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives
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Last year in Science Robotics, researchers reported the development of Third Thumb—a robotic appendage that, when trialed by members of the general public, was a big hit. Learn more: #ScienceMagArchives

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