Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with that help them survive, finds a new Royal Society paper led by Queen Mary University of London. The new model proposed by the researchers suggest that naïve animals like newborn turtles and chicks are not blank slates but are supported by the presence of multiple biases that interact. 

Artificial light from major coastal cities can disrupt the nighttime biology of sharks, according to new research that provides the first-ever measurements of melatonin—a hormone tied to biological rhythms—in wild sharks.

To help make commercial fusion energy a reality, PPPL leads the StellFoundry project, which uses AI to sift through enormous amounts of data to determine which fusion system configurations are best. This project aligns with the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Genesis Mission, a major DOE initiative to accelerate scientific discovery and enhance national security using AI, as well as with the DOE’s recently released Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap.

Pensoft and ARPHA have integrated Prophy’s AI-driven discovery system to provide editors with a broader and more diverse pool of qualified peer reviewers based on automated semantic analysis.