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- Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: scim.ag/493IHZh
00:00 - Italians can speak up to nine syllables per second, while Germans deliver five to six syllables in the same tick of a watch. Yet, they transmit a similar amount of information, according to a new study. fcld.ly/wfmyrp0
- It may not sound like much, but the audio clip in this story is the first reconstruction of an ancient human voice—one belonging to a 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy named Nesyamun. fcld.ly/sf5tyge
- Far beneath the ice cap at Mars’s south pole lies a lake of liquid water—the first to be found on the Red Planet: scim.ag/2uPHl03
- Scientists and doctors are divided over whether myocarditis concerns should influence vaccine recommendations, especially now that a new #COVID19 wave is looming and revamped boosters are hitting the scene.
- New research marks the first documented case of an ape using a plant with scientifically proven medicinal properties to treat a fresh wound. scim.ag/6OW
- As with other behavioral traits such as personality, there is no single “gay gene.” Instead, same-sex sexual behavior appears to be influenced by perhaps hundreds or thousands of genes, each with tiny effects, according to new research. fcld.ly/neq4aqo
- Breaking news: NASA announced today it will eliminate its Office of the Chief Scientist, along with offices advising the agency on technology, strategy, and coordinating its diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts.
- This rabbit walks on its "hands." Scientists think they’ve found the genetic reason why: fcld.ly/pp2k2cs
00:00 - Rapid color changes in marlins may prevent the predators from impaling one another during group attacks. Learn more: scim.ag/60c
00:00 - Breaking news: President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, one of the country’s premier climate science agencies, according to an internal budget document seen by
- The #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to the two scientists who transformed an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, commonly called #CRISPR, into a tool that can simply and cheaply edit the genomes of everything from wheat to mosquitoes to humans. fcld.ly/vrb1i1m
