animal research

Explainer: Everything you need to know about organoid intelligence and ‘biocomputers’

After Dishbrain, scientists now show how to create ‘biocomputers’ out of human brain cells

Eat, shoot, love: why do we eat some animals and not others?

Rats can bop to the beat – a trait once thought to be exclusively human

Bird brains: Smaller is better for preventing woodpecker concussions

Pocket gophers go for a pocket-sized harvest by “farming” roots underground

How we speak matters to animals

Aww, rats: Australian research rodents prove to be poor earners

Tricks of nature, with and without light

Dolphins form “boybands”

Female swamp wallabies are always pregnant

Sugar ants love pee

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