How gut sense informs your brain
Unlike your tongue, sensors in your intestine can measure the calorie content in sweeteners
Ostrich beads mark the ebb and flow of migration
A self-funded researcher’s work on ostrich beads shows how a flooded river basin cut ties between African communities for 40,000 years
First “four-legged snake fossil” was a false alarm
Researchers suggest that an old study that claimed it had found an ancestral snake fossil had no legs after all
Some electric fish, like great orators, pause for effect
Mormyrids know how to create that shocking tension while communicating with fellow fish
Nanotech with some concrete solutions
Researchers find out that nanomaterials reduce the cement used in construction, thus reducing its carbon footprint