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Beneath the cute veneer, a mobile, self-sufficient plant raises profound questions about our relationship with other species, the role of technology, and the line between organic and machine.
Image credit: Elizabeth Demaray.
The lesson seems to be that neural success hinges on connectivity generated by trial-and-error learning over evolutionary and individual time rather than algorithms that compute behavioral answers.
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Survey of more than 12,600 adolescents on life satisfaction domains and hours spent interacting with friends on social media revealed a nuanced link, statistically significant for a greater number of domains for girls than boys.
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Bats adapted to hot-dry climates are likely to retain most of their range and survive climate change, whereas bats adapted to cold-wet climates are likely to lose most of their range, a study suggests.
Image courtesy of Daniel Fernández Alonso (photographer).
A study explores how webs of triangle weaver spiders use power amplification to catch prey from afar.
Image courtesy of S.I. Han.
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