How clonal raider ants update their friend-or-foe recognition

For ants, the ability to instantly distinguish nestmates from outsiders who might hijack the colony is crucial. Now, a new ...
Neuroscience News

How Ants Map Social Identity

Summary: New research reveals that the ability of ants to distinguish nestmates from outsiders is a highly flexible, learned behavior rather than a rigid genetic program. Using clonal raider ants, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Sea Slugs Can ‘Eat’ Sunlight—but They’re No Astrophage. Here’s How the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Antagonist Has a Real-Life Analogue in Earth’s Oceans

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...
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20 facts that completely change how you see the world

Reality is far stranger than it appears. Join us as we explore mind-bending discoveries that completely reshape how we ...

Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected protist diversity

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have ...

Cacti may help explain a centuries‑old mystery of evolution

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...
Nature

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...
Earth.com

Mollusks once pushed evolutionary limits before settling into predictable patterns

A new study has found that nearly half of the body traits identified across mollusks – a group that includes snails, clams, and octopuses – appeared in the first 96 million years. During that time, ...