If I had a dollar for every, “Hey, humans aren’t that different from other animals, after all” comic I’ve drawn over the years, I’d be able to sustain myself on advances in animal cognition for years. The most recent of such discoveries comes to us from Michael J. Beran and Bonnie M. Perdue of the Georgia [...]
Ah cats. Darlings of the internet. Dogs may be man’s best friend, but cats are the small, furry mirrors into everything that makes us total jerks. We can relate to their aloofness and utter disregard for that which annoys them, and like many of us they crave attention so long as it is on their [...]
Today’s comic is brought to you by WTF Evolution? which featured the oddly named Sarcastic Fringehead yesterday. The fringe I can understand, but sarcastic? I needed to look that up. Apparently the Fringehead’s fiercely territorial nature earned it its the unconventional monicker, though more than a few sources point to the etymology of the word [...]
Alright, alright. I’ve dawdled enough. Everybody say it at once now: “All you have to do is kidnap the password holder and force them at gunpoint to enter the password.” Doesn’t that feel good? Now let’s move on. Bojinov et all are aware of their method’s weaknesses, such as susceptibility to eavesdropping (they use the term “shoulder surfing”) [...]
Just as altruism isn’t unique to humans, neither is taking advantage of another’s altruism. In any given group dynamic, there will be those who would try to game the system to their advantage—and they would be wise to do it. Social slime mold such as D. purpureum and D. discoideum are prized for their role as [...]
Ernst Haeckel made countless contributions to the burgeoning field of evolutionary biology. We looked at a few in the previous comics based around him and his relationship with Charles Darwin. But as was briefly mentioned in the first comic of the series, it wasn’t all peaches, roses, and scientific breakthroughs. Haeckel made some errors and even [...]
The best part about having a science webcomic is that any new thing can be fodder. Take today’s comic for example: A little while back, I was called into my coworker’s office to see something. National Geographic had posted photos of one shark eating another shark whole. But not just any shark, this was a [...]
It’s an organic ballet we do here at Sci-ence. With one post gently nudging or inspiring the other*. We don’t really coordinate but also try not to step on each others toes (this is how ballet works, rite?). We seem to have strayed into a (developmental) biology sector for the last few posts, and since [...]
Before I go anywhere, I just have to note again that the embryos above are only approximately at developmental level (or Carnegie stages). I worked specifically from photos, and it was hard to pin down each one at a specific stage, which resulted in a game I’m not 100% happy with. The version of the [...]
Today we are proud to announce our first article written by a guest blogger. Doctor Nocere is an acquaintance of ours who had expressed interest in doing a guest spot such as this one, and so penned this wonderful piece on the superstitions of baby sexing (no, it’s not what you think, you dirty, dirty monkeys). Dr. [...]