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Front Matter
It's an intriguing new hypothesis that has started to garner attention as researchers continue to debate the merits of multiple models.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC.
If we don’t clarify terms, we risk hampering the field, confusing the public, and possibly losing a technology that may help solve some of the world’s most intractable problems.
Image credit: Stephanie Gamez (University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA).
Researchers want to mimic animal impulses using chaotic dynamics, eventually in robots.
Image credit: Shutterstock/ MDavidova.
In the News
Changing environmental conditions and genetic adaptations may explain how penguins radiated and expanded their geographic ranges to encompass diverse environments.
Image credit: Aurora Fernández Durán (photographer).
In the United States, mortality rates and life expectancy were worse for Blacks during nonpandemic years than for Whites during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study finds.
Image credit: Pixabay/PIRO4D.
Genetic insights could help shore up populations of a rare dog species thought to be nearly extinct in the wild.
Image credit: Anang Dianto (photographer).
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