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Why the Mexican cavefish gave up their eyes

illustration: silverbackblog.com If you're a fish living in a cave, having eyes isn't going to be particularly useful to you. E...

That Wikipedia isn't a reliable source isn't exactly news to many of you, but despite its faults it is the most widely used online...

Many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. A recent criticism, published in PLoS Biology , has called into question the use...

HIV-infected T cell. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California have managed to alter the DNA of Rhesus macaques to giv...

3D representation of micro-CT scan data. Now christened as Persephonichthys chthonica – from Persephone, a Greek goddess, daughter o...

A paper by Dutch psychologists describes 4 studies that show that depictions in media of scientific progress made in battling climate ch...

Sender on the left. Receiver on the right. International scientists have managed to transmit words from one brain in India to another...

Capuchin monkeys were used in this study. Here is an interesting video that demonstrates so well that animals have a sense of fairness...