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By Mike Fitz Mother bears experience extraordinary energetic demands to feed their ravenous cubs. Bear families navigate a gauntlet of…

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Iron deficiency in pregnant mice causes XY embryos to develop with female characteristics

Nature, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01456-7 In mice, a lack of maternal iron impairs an iron-dependent enzyme that activates…

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NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care

Diseases caused by HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis could surge globally as a result of research-grant cuts made by the US…

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How the natural world is inspiring the robot eyes of the future

The miniature curved compound eye, called CurvACE, was inspired by the eyes of insects.Credit: Alain Herzog, EPFL Electrical engineer Young…

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Scientists with ADHD speak up: when fire meets focus

Lis Gallant’s ADHD helps her to switch her attention rapidly to manage field site safety and data collection under intense…

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COVID changed our appetite for zombies

The year was 2013, and the release of hotly anticipated zombie-apocalypse video game was on the horizon. The game, called…

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team up to jump-start innovative science

The cuts to US federal science funding are beginning to bite around the world. Now, more than ever, private funders,…

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Can AI help us talk to dolphins? The race is now on

Bottlenose dolphins’ whistles will be analysed using artificial intelligence.Credit: Georgette Douwma/Nature Picture Library Will artificial intelligence (AI) finally allow us…

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Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal

Animals Male and female adult mice, aged between 2 and 7 months old, from the following mouse lines were used:…

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planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research records

Over the past several weeks, hundreds of meeting abstracts have quietly vanished from the websites of research conferences organized by…

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