Category: Science
Unlocking secrets of the honey bee dance language – bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills
Astonishingly, honeybees possess one of the most complicated examples of nonhuman communication. They can tell each other where to find resources such as food, water, or nest sites with a physical “waggle dance.” This dance conveys the direction, distance and quality of a resource to the bee’s nestmates.
Consumers Underestimate How Many Negative Product Reviews Might Be Fake
Toilets Spew Invisible Aerosol Plumes With Every Flush – Here’s the Proof, Captured by High Powered Lasers
New Langya Virus Discovered in China Causing Zoonotic Disease in Humans
Tech Firms Are Making Computer Chips With Human Cells – Is It Ethical?
Although the name and scenario are fictional, this is a question we have to confront now. In December 2021, Melbourne-based Cortical Labs grew groups of neurons (brain cells) that were incorporated into a computer chip. The resulting hybrid chip works because both brains and neurons share a common language: electricity.
New Data-Sharing Requirements From the NIH Are a Big Step Toward More Open Science
Researchers Identified Over 5,500 New Viruses in the Ocean, Including a Missing Link in Viral Evolution
The War in Ukraine Ruins Russia’s Academic Ties With the West
Russia has dissolved academic connections with the West through legislation on so-called “foreign agents” and “undesirable organizations.” The government ramped up scrutiny of foreign funding and outlawed dozens of Western think tanks, charities, and universities that previously had worked in Russia.
Study Shows AI-Generated Fake Reports Fool Experts
It’s possible for artificial intelligence systems to generate false information in critical fields like medicine and defense that is convincing enough to fool experts.
If Everyone on Earth Sat In the Ocean at Once, How Much Would Sea Level Rise?
Rest to Time Travel
Imagine that as you are sitting on your lawn chair, a rocket will be passing by at about 86 % the speed of light. Let us take it a step further and consider that you have a laser based clock consisting of a rod with parallel mirrors and, whenever fired, it would take the laser one second to travel to the top mirror, reflect off of it, and travel back to the bottom mirror.
What’s the Difference Between an Outbreak, an Epidemic and a Pandemic?
How We Discovered the Vampire Bat That Has Learned To Drink Human Blood
What a Link Between Chocolate and Nobel Prizes Reveals About Our Trust in Scientists
In 2012, Dr Franz Messerli published a short article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that took a good hard look at the cognitive benefits of chocolate consumption. As chocolate contains flavanols, thought to facilitate brain cell connections and boost thinking skills, such a study seems to make sense.