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These bizarre new beetles look so stretchy scientists named them Luffy

Scientists named a new beetle genus Luffy because its long, stretchy body parts look like a rubber

Research challenges assumptions about online education success

Online students who never post may still be deeply engaged, research finds

African-led study delivers one of the largest microbiome feedback initiatives

778 women in South Africa and Kenya received their gut microbiome results, with 1,005 new bacterial

Astrobiologist uses Apollo lunar samples as mirror onto early Earth

Scientists are using 50-year-old Moon rocks to solve Earth's oldest climate puzzle.

PUMA FEST and the community Mongabay Latam has helped build

400 people gathered in Bogotá to celebrate a decade of environmental journalism across Latin

Life speaks one universal language to activate genes: It speaks many more to silence them

Gene activation signals haven't changed in 2 billion years, but silencing them has evolved in

August's total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

A total solar eclipse will cross Spain for the first time in over a century this August.

How new informatics tools help turn biodiversity data into policy insights

An EU project built free tools that help scientists turn millions of species records into clear

Three-Body Interactions Can Split Identical Oscillators Into Chimeras

Identical oscillators split into chimera states using only three-body interactions, no pairwise

AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates

Wild capuchins now take cognitive tests on touchscreens—AI recognizes each monkey's face.

Your personality changes more across your life than you think, according to new study

People were wrong 100% of the time about how much personality changes over a lifetime.

Sensor-embedded 3D-printed repairs could help preserve ancient pottery

Researchers can now 3D-print repairs for 1,000-year-old pottery that also watch over the artifact

Scientists found two mysterious ‘ghost’ ancestors hiding in our DNA

Two mysterious ancestors left DNA in all modern humans, one dating back 800,000 years.

Homing in on the X-ray sky with eROSITA's second data release

Nearly 2 million X-ray sources now publicly available - double the previous count.

New open-source software predicts energy transfer between tiny defects in solid materials

Free software now lets scientists predict energy flow in next-gen electronics.

Inverting the seminar to recover what scientific papers leave out

A landmark physics discovery started 'totally by accident'—and the paper never said so.

Bacteria may identify a virus without recognizing its DNA

Bacteria watch where DNA is being copied, not what the DNA is.

Mice value advance knowledge, even when it reduces water rewards

Mice preferred a hole that predicted water over one that gave more water but no preview.

Forum: Gender & Child Data in Africa – Open Data Watch

Africa's inaugural forum on gender data opens.

Ancient Chinese seeds spanning 5,000 years train AI to ease archaeology's specialist bottleneck

An AI system spots ancient plant seeds as well as human experts who spent years learning.