NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD -- without the trip.

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Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

The Trump administration is reinterpreting a key word in the Endangered Species Act that could have big consequences for the ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China's Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which ...