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Peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press covering research across biology, including genetics, ecology, neuroscience, and animal behavior.
Case Western Reserve researchers mapped hair cells across squid skin and found bundles at the mantle's front edge about a fifth as long as those on the head. The layout suggests squid tune each cell partly by bundle length, as the human ear does for pitch.
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York University researchers found macaque neurons shift their code for a still target's position after motion adaptation, as human perception does. The AI vision networks they tested showed no such shift, so the team proposes the illusion as a NeuroAI benchmark.
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University of Geneva researchers find fruit-fly clock neurons inhibit dopamine relay cells on a 24-hour rhythm to gate daytime wakefulness. That puts the step where time of day becomes alertness in a middle layer of cells, so far shown only in flies.
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Researchers filmed 10 shoals of clonal Amazon mollies for 55 days and found group behaviour shifted in ways the members' traits do not explain. The authors credit social interaction as the fish mature, an idea the observational design fits but has not yet tested.
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Scientists have recognized Bolivia's Leopardus tilcayo as a new tiger cat species, the first new wild cat described in over a century. It is one of five tiger cat species, though what the split means for conservation depends on data the coverage does not include.
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An Iwate University-led team reports 13 branched-chain fatty acids that differ between cats but hold steady within one, and traces them to kidney lipid droplets catalogued over a century ago.
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The wiring of a male fruit fly's brain and nerve cord is now public, and the payload for anyone planning a bigger map is a claimed thousandfold gain in connectome efficiency whose denominator nobody has stated.
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The best Mesozoic feather yet described came out of a coprolite from Montana's Hell Creek, and it belonged to a flightless diver the asteroid killed, which makes modern feather architecture older than the survivors.
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Leopardus tilcayo of the Bolivian Yungas was counted inside Leopardus tigrinus until 38 sequenced genomes separated it. The living animal itself is known from two individuals, one of them a captive male.
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Daniel Kattnig modelled a semicircular canal under the conditions most favourable to electromagnetic induction and found the bird's own thermal fluctuations leave a directional signal far too slow to steer by.
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A Hebrew University team traced cocaine's compulsive licking in mice to the orofacial action-selection circuit of the ventrolateral striatum, then turned the behavior off and on by moving the region's two competing pathways.
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Cats lose interest in urine they have sniffed before and perk up again for a stranger's, and an Iwate-led team traced that discrimination to branched-chain fatty acids that hold their pattern for a day at 25 C.
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A Tel Aviv University team gave one classical acoustic method and two deep neural networks a set of toddler recordings whose meanings adult listeners could confirm. All three grouped the clips by sound.
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Yujingia glutenotunica preserves a crown of feeding tentacles in soft tissue. A phylogenetic analysis places it near the ambulacrarian ancestor, reassigning how that ancestor is thought to have eaten.
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Binghan Wang and Daniel Kierzkowski report in Current Biology that the fast valves of an Arabidopsis flower pull its slow central band longer than it could grow alone, and that the extra length is where additional ovules fit.
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Three Yukon fossils and one from Wyoming place Miracinonyx trumani beside the puma rather than the cheetah. Nitrogen isotopes put the northern animals near the top of a fish food chain far above the old known range.
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After four or five years of cultures that would not grow, a UNSW-led team finally had something it could image. The result gives eukaryogenesis a living analogue for the stage before one cell ended up inside another.
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Researchers led by the Canadian Museum of Nature scored coil direction in photographs of more than 900 embryos and then found the tether on a CT scan, which points to mechanics rather than a developmental program.
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MBARI's tag-and-satellite study places blue whale feeding on temperature fronts that infrared sensors already map, which is the first thing any mitigation aimed at prey hotspots would need before it could replace a broad one.
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A modulator credited with both raising and lowering aggression in flies can now be probed one cell type at a time, some types as small as a pair of neurons, moving the story from chemical to cellular resolution.
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