Tag: science

Mind Neural recordings from chickadees have found unique patterns of activity that occur when they hide food and then retrieve ...

Male flies are better at mating after fighting off a robotic rival

Life Lab-reared insects sometimes struggle to compete for mates with wild males, but an encounter with a robotic replica seems ...

How Greyhound Racing Drove the Evolution of a Superparasite

In 2017 Ray Kaplan, a parasitologist and veterinarian then at the University of Georgia, started receiving e-mails from colleagues around ...

Why Dads and Their Babies Need to Go Skin-to-Skin

Fathers and nonbirthing parents benefit from skin-to-skin contact with their newborns Credit: Roc Canals/Getty Images The following essay is reprinted ...

Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to Earth, and It’s Totally Awesome

The OSIRIS-REx mission will return samples from the asteroid Bennu that could rewrite our solar system’s historyOSIRIS-REx'S sampling arm reaches ...

Climate-Friendly Cocktail Recipes Go Light on Ice

In the early 19th century, more than 100 years before electric refrigeration, an entrepreneurial Bostonian named Frederic Tudor landed on ...

Meet the Métis: culture and crafts with the First Nation people of Alberta