Natural populations are often spatially structured, meaning they exist as metapopulations composed of subpopulations connected by migration. Little is known about the impact of spatial structure, in ...

A crab-like body has evolved at least five separate times in ten-legged crustaceans, and scientists keep finding the same pattern. Researchers in Germany compared crab-shaped groups with their ...

The marine bristleworm Platynereis dumerilii. Picture of a mature female. Credit: Florian Raible A ring of light-responsive stem cells helps bristleworms continually expand their eyes, offering an ...

Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in vertebrate eyes. This growth is surprisingly regulated by environmental light ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult marine bristleworms continue to grow throughout life – driven by a ring of ...

Parking is not always an easy task. Sometimes spots are too tight, too small or positioned strangely — not to mention the potential obstacles hindering your perfect parking, like other vehicles, trees ...

In the rugged hills of La Selva Beach, California, a small team of engineers is quietly rewriting the rules of unmanned aviation. Parallel Flight Technologies (PFT), founded in 2018, has emerged as a ...

In a new paper, researchers from Tencent AI Lab Seattle and the University of Maryland, College Park, present a reinforcement learning technique that enables large language models (LLMs) to utilize ...

A chance discovery in a Vermont cheese cave has given scientists a rare glimpse of evolution unfolding in real time – and the unexpected findings have broad implications for protecting human health, ...