What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of April 12, 2021

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Mon, 12 Apr 2021
Single day of competition in the wild is encoded in the brain

Changes in gene activity can link past experience with future behavior

Fighting among social animals is common as they compete for the resources they need to survive and reproduce. A winner and a loser will inevitably result from these interactions, but do these challenges also leave an unseen, lasting mark?

From past work, scientists

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Mon, 12 Apr 2021
Taking the vital signs of the global ocean with biogeochemical floats

First profile data arrive from western North Atlantic

As the researchers and crew aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson continue to deploy biogeochemical floats in the western North Atlantic, the arrival of the first profile data marks an exciting step forward for the

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