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Lisa Feldman Barrett ponders Joseph LeDoux’s study on how conscious brains evolved.

Stuart West and helpers compare the cut and thrust of three games that explore life's greatest competition.

Abiotic processes can mimic or alter the biogenic traces of early life but advances in micro- and nanoscale analyses provide evidence that—with geological contextualization—improves our ability to address this issue.

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In there monumental 1953 Nature paper, Watson and Crick did not report the discover of DNA. Rather, they reported the chemical binding among the nucleic acids that render the beautiful double helix. This is the “specific pairings” they refer to in the above quote. When they said “suggests a possible copying mechanism”, it was a premeditated and masterful understatement, which had the effect of amplifying the importance of the work.

Visit the Virtual Fossil Museum to learn more about evolutionary mechanisms and the history of life on earth.

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A flock of lawn flamingos can pick a T-rex clean in under 90 seconds

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nature is brutal

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Fight or flight, take your choice.

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The week in science: 16–22 August 2019.

Conservation groups claim the changes ignore the impacts from climate change.

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Taking up lysine enables yeast cells to handle oxidative stress.

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High-throughput brain image registration methods that are independent of any pre-processing steps, and are robust under mild image transformations, could accelerate the study of region-specific changes in brain development. A deep learning-based method is therefore developed for automated registration through segmenting brain regions of interest with minimal human supervision.