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Mantis shrimp SMASH! Size issues in conflicts over the Ideal house

“Nice burrow you’ve got there. I need it.” Patrick Green at the University of Exeter filmed this struggle between mantis shrimp. Size matters into the small-but-mighty mantis shrimp, that reveal a marked taste for burrows in coral rubble using amounts that closely fit their particular body dimensions or are only a little bigger –in other […]

Pandemic skyrockets in Europe; COVID is the No. 1 cause of death

Enlarge / North Rhine-Westphalia, Herten: The crew of a Dutch ambulance brings a COVID-19 patient from Rotterdam to St. Elisabeth Hospital in Herten. (credit: Getty | Picture alliance ) Health officials in Europe are pleading for people to adopt more health precautions as the region grapples with its most dramatic surge of COVID-19 cases yet […]

Feeding the machine: We give an AI some headlines and see what it does

Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory that you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude of options available to take on the project, you research your options, read the documentation, and start to work—only to […]