Hot spring bathing doesn't just keep snow monkeys warm—it can disrupt lice distribution and reshape gut bacteria

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy ...

Studying raccoon behavior can clarify human intelligence, too

When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled the stock and passed out on ...

Biden Adviser Deletes X Post After Getting Duped By AI Clip of ICE Chasing a Viking Through the Streets of Minnesota

Biden Adviser Neera Tanden was duped by an AI clip of ICE agents chasing a Viking in a bathtub in Minnesota, saying it was a ...
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Naked mole-rats prefer low-oxygen air that would kill most mammals, adding to their list of death-defying superpowers

The breath you just took contains about 21 percent oxygen. But if you were in a chamber with no influx of fresh air, the ...
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Toward Anthropomorphic Grasping in Food Industries: A Dual-Arm Mobile Robot With Human-Like Reaching Function for Adaptive Grasping

Abstract: Performing unstructured grasping tasks in cluttered or obstacle-rich food processing environments is a key challenge in robotic systems. This work presents a task-adaptive grasping approach ...