Oldest known poison arrows show Stone Age humans’ technological talents
Humans have used bows and arrows to hunt for thousands of years, as depicted in this cave painting…
Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand
The new materials are inspired by the colour-changing, shape-shifting properties of octopus skin. Credit: Ethan Daniels/Alamy Researchers have…
Surface optimization governs the local design of physical networks
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Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours
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Neuro-epithelial circuits promote sensory convergence and intestinal immunity
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Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
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Aharonov–Bohm interference in even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states
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scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI
Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single…
ipRGC properties prevent light from shifting the SCN clock during daytime
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The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark
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Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3
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