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To Decrease Bird Kills, Cat Lovers Team Up With Bird Lovers In D.C. Cat Count
Outdoor cats kill as many as 4 billion birds each year in this country. But how many cats are there, really? Now a team of technicians is trying to count Washington, D.C.'s feral felines. -
Researchers Uncover A Circuit For Sadness In The Human Brain
When people are feeling glum, it often means that brain areas involved in emotion and memory are communicating. Researchers have now observed the circuit in action in humans. -
Are Aliens Coming To Earth?
With all the election talk, you may have missed a story out of Harvard this week, claiming that an alien spacecraft looking was looking at Earth. -
Rash Of Retractions Highlight Flaws In Science, But Also Self-Correction
What it means that Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's have called for the retraction of 31 studies. -
Neuroscientists Debate A Simple Question: How Does The Brain Store A Phone Number?
Working memory is where the brain keeps bits of information in everyday life handy. But brain scientists don't agree on how working memory works. -
Critics Warn Crop Program Could Lead To Biological Weapons
The DARPA program intends to use insects to genetically modify crops. -
Should Self-Driving Cars Have Ethics?
To design a "moral machine," researchers updated a classic thought experiment for the autonomous vehicle age. But do we really want artificial intelligence making decisions on who lives or dies? -
It's A Chick! Sydney's Same-Sex Penguin Couple Welcome Baby
Sphen and Magic, a male penguin couple, are now dads to their newborn foster chick. The unnamed chick weighed in at 91 grams; its sex will be determined later by a DNA test. -
Remote Hawaiian Island Nearly Vanished After Hurricane Walaka
Only two miniscule slivers of East Island have resurfaced since the storm struck the region and wiped out a critical habitat for endangered monk seals and green sea turtles. -
Behold The Headless Chicken Of The Deep Sea
A sea cucumber that looks like a headless chicken has been caught on video in the deep seas near East Antarctica, thousands of miles from where one of the species was last spotted.
