Teaching Bats to Say ‘Move Out of My Way’ in Many Dialects
Wild fruit bats, living in crowded roosts, are exposed to calls from hundreds of fellow bats from birth. Most often these calls are made in response to unsolicited physical contact,…
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How Neanderthals Influenced Human Genetics at the Crossroads of Asia and Europe
When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of Africa, they passed through the Middle East and Turkey before heading deeper into Asia and Europe. Here, at this important crossroads, it’s…
h7n9 Influenza Is Both Lethal and Transmissible in Animal Model for Flu
In 2013, an influenza virus that had never before been detected began circulating among poultry in China. It caused several waves of human infection and in late 2016, the number…
‘This Is Very Alarming!’: Flying Insects Vanish from Nature Preserves
Not long ago, a lengthy drive on a hot day wouldn’t be complete without scraping bug guts off a windshield. But splattered insects have gone the way of the Chevy Nova — you just don’t…
Nature or Nurture? Innate Social Behaviors in the Mouse Brain
Adult male mice have a simple repertoire of innate, or instinctive, social behaviors: When encountering a female, a male mouse will try to mate with it, and when encountering another…
New Study Shows How Bee’s Brain Functions to Guide It Home
Bees use their vision to navigate, but until now little was known about what happens inside their brains — which are smaller than a grain of rice — as they…