While most of us use one side of the brain to play chess, the minds of masters of the game solve moves by parallel processing.
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Grizzly Cat
Cat versus bear cub: sentimental romp, or nature red in tooth and claw? Watching the two tangle playfully in a Russian hunting camp, the line is hard to draw. Video after the jump.
Read More »E.O. Wilson: The Lily Pads Are Getting Worried
In an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, E. O. Wilson's warning: evolution has its times and its textures, and we risk making out its patterns too late.
Read More »Taste of Tech: Teasing out the Sugar in the Genes
With chocolate and other delicacies in the genomic crosshairs, it's tempting to imagine science-fictional scenarios for the future of flavor.
Read More »The Nature of Petroglyphs
The Bradshaw paintings, petroglyphs found on the lands of Australia's Wanjina Wunggurr Wilinggi people, are perhaps 46 to 70,000 years old�yet their colors remain bright, their figures sharply delineated. A new study suggests that the colors remain vivid because they're alive.
Read More »Flocks of Trouble
A mystery deepens as more redwing blackbirds turn up dead in the America South. It's likely not UFOs or secret weapons, but the birds' instinctual flocking behavior, that's to blame.
Read More »For Self-Repairing Solar Cells, Leave it to DNA
A team of scientist at Purdue University takes a biomimetic approach to engineering solar cells, appropriating the components of living systems to novel ends.
Read More »New Near-Neanderthals Complicate the Human Family Tree
A pinkie bone found in Russia offers a key to our complicated common heritage.
Read More »Hectometer Free Drive Breaks the Record, Answers a Question
And the question is�what the heck's a hectometer? Video after the jump.
Read More »Scientists Get the Point from Sea Urchins’ Eversharp Teeth
The teeth of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus remain sharp through a lifetime of rock-scraping. But do they come with a matching fork for easy carving?
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