Learn more about the complexities of the honey bee waggle dance and why the audience size matters.
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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Honey Bees' Waggle Dance — Wiggling and Looping Motions — Changes With the Crowd
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Drone Footage Reveals Sperm Whales Head-Butting — Echoing Tales That Inspired <em>Moby Dick</em>
Learn how drone footage captured sperm whales head-butting for the first time, offering new insight into their behavior and social interactions.
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A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow ‘Organ Sacks’ to Replace Animal Testing
As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks.”
Bay Area-based R3 Bio has been quietly…
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Sunken Soviet Submarine Is Leaking Radioactive Material in The Ocean : ScienceAlert
A sunken Cold War-era nuclear submarine is quietly leaking radioactive material into the deep, dark waters at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, a survey has determined.
The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets sank after an on-board fire in April 1989,…
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Dolphins use baby talk and call each other by ‘name’, research reveals
Human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years, at least as early as…
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Is it better to be a morning person or a night owl? What the science says.
Years ago I read an article asking, “Are you a night owl or a morning lark?”…
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The Comb Jelly ‘Brain’ Is Far More Complex Than We Ever Realized : ScienceAlert
Comb jellies – very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows – first appeared in Earth’s oceans around 550 million years ago.
For a long time, biologists have kind of considered them the living…
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