Gibraltar monkeys eat soil in junk food detox, study finds
A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
Biology
Seagrass found to produce new genetic individuals rather than clone itself, offering hope for ‘underwater meadows’
In many underwater ecosystems, seagrass meadows act as a food source, a safe haven, and an ecological lynchpin. But until now, very little was known about how these plants reproduce—critical…
SPECTRA: Spectral Domain-Aware Graph Generation for Imbalanced Molecular Property Regression
arXiv:2511.04838v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Molecular property regression struggles with cases in chemically relevant target ranges that are underrepresented in datasets. Standard…
Self-organized criticality enables conscious integration through brain-body resonance
arXiv:2605.00024v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The “binding problem” of how distributed neural activity unifies into conscious experience has remained an open challenge since its articulation…
An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software
arXiv:2509.06503v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational…
Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle
arXiv:2505.22749v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first…
Recent advances in modeling and simulation of biological phenomena in crowded and cellular environments
arXiv:2603.26974v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: While experiments and computer simulations to study biological phenomena are usually performed in diluted in vitro conditions, such phenomena…
Canonical Functionalism: Defining Functional Structure without Observer-Relative Semantic Maps
arXiv:2605.21506v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Computational functionalism about consciousness is often criticized for relying on observer-relative interpretations of physical systems. This paper…
Exact phylodynamic likelihood via structured Markov genealogy processes
arXiv:2405.17032v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We show that each member of a broad class of Markovian population models induces a unique stochastic process on the space of genealogies. We…
A Characterization of Level-k Realizability for Clustering Systems
arXiv:2605.21945v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We give a Hasse-diagram characterization of when a clustering system $mathcal C$ on a finite taxa set $X$ is the hardwired clustering system $C_N$ of…