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• Flamingos create water tornados to trap their prey May 12, 2025
  Flamingos have developed an amazing variety of techniques to create swirls and eddies in the water to concentrate and eat brine shrimp and other organisms, a biologist found. They stomp dance to stir organisms from the bottom and concentrate them in whorls. The organisms are then drawn upward by a head jerk that forms a […]
• From prehistoric resident to runaway pet: First tegu fossil found in the U.S. May 12, 2025
  Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. But a recent discovery shows these reptiles are no strangers to the region -- tegus were here millions of years before their modern relatives arrived in pet carriers.
• Submarine robot catches an underwater wave May 12, 2025
  Engineers have taught a simple submarine robot to take advantage of turbulent forces to propel itself through water.
• Drug to slow Alzheimer's well tolerated outside of clinical trial setting May 12, 2025
  In a recent study, researchers found adverse events were rare and manageable among clinic patients with very mild or mild Alzheimer's disease who received lecanemab infusions.
• Universe decays faster than thought, but still takes a long time May 12, 2025
  The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 10^78 years (a 1 with 78 zeros) to perish. That is much shorter than the previously postulated 10^1100 years (a 1 with 1100 zeros).