Could robots be psychology’s new lab rats?
Science speaks with researchers putting artificial intelligence brains into robot bodies".
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An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds
On this week’s show: Detecting childhood eye disease in old photos, and inserting memories into zebra finches".
One billion people, many in poor countries, have major vision problems that could be fixed
Better health coverage and primary care could help, the World Health Organization says".
A fridge made from a rubber band? Twisted elastic fibers could cool your food
“Twistocaloric” effect could usher in new wave of cooling technology free of greenhouse gases".
Dismissed EPA science advisers gather in ‘unprecedented’ challenge to Trump administration
Ousted air quality experts stage their own review of agency’s particulate science".
Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands
On this week’s show: New insights into dinosaurs from 300-million-year-old molecules, and stretching rubber bands and twisting memory metals to cool things down".
In bid to boost transparency, bioRxiv begins posting peer reviews next to preprints
A related experiment will provide new test of “portable” peer reviews".
‘Bingo!’ In a remarkable first, humpback whales spotted using their fins to scoop up fish
Drone footage captures the practice in action".
New wrinkle on origami turns designing folding structures into child’s play
Puzzle approach provides new way of designing folding robots and other devices".
Watch the world’s loudest bird scream for a mate
White bellbirds shatter the record for noisiest call—and maybe their mates’ eardrums".
Fast new 3D printing method creates objects as big as an adult human
Printer could revolutionize car and aircraft manufacturing".
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
On this week’s show: Uncovering the biological basis of consciousness, and understanding why adults think their generation was always “better”".
New video reveals how flies land upside-down
Study could inspire advanced drones and other flying robots".
A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm
On this week’s show: Digging into global earthworm populations, detecting bias in an algorithm used to make health care decisions, and a plea for space archaeology".
In decision certain to draw fire, journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics
Physicist Alessandro Strumia’s views have drawn widespread condemnation".
HHMI to fund expansion of Meyerhoff program to boost minorities in science
New competition will fund six universities to adapt successful Maryland program".
Vampire bats form bonds of ‘friendship’ that last beyond captivity
But they don’t always play well with other wild bats".
Supernovae and chemical explosions have a lot in common, video reveals
Mechanisms for both are surprisingly similar".
How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes
On this week’s show: How the measles virus induces immune amnesia, making later infections with other diseases more likely, and detecting a small black hole in a binary pair with a red giant star".
Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology
On this week’s show: Archaeologists are digging up buttons and beads in the Caribbean to better understand the lives of enslaved Africans, and economists are unraveling how the early Roman Catholic Church has influenced psychology today".