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Geneticists who sampled 243 boars and pigs around the Fukushima nuclear plant confirmed escaped farm pigs had bred into the wild boar herd, but the pig ancestry is erasing itself — hybrid sows inherit year-round breeding from domestic mothers, and faster generations dilute the pig genes faster

news scienceblog.com IrregularChat: Research/PAI 3w ago

After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011, domestic pigs escaped or were abandoned in the exclusion zone and began interbreeding with wild boar, creating a rare, well-documented hybri

Researchers taught 18 pet parrots to ring a bell and select another bird’s picture on a touchscreen to request a video call. During 147 bird-initiated calls, the parrots developed preferred partners and preened, sang and played toward the screen — while caregivers reported that some appeared to learn new behaviors, including foraging, from birds they had never met in person.

news scienceblog.com IrregularChat: Research/PAI 3w ago

A 2023 CHI Conference study explored whether pet parrots could learn to request live video calls with other parrots and use the system without food rewards. Eighteen parrots began the project, and 15

No sample deliberately collected on Mars has ever been examined in a laboratory on Earth, because bringing one home requires launching a sealed container from the Martian surface, autonomously rendezvousing with another spacecraft in orbit, and carrying it across interplanetary space; China plans to accomplish all three with Tianwen-3 and return at least 500 grams of Martian material around 2031.

news scienceblog.com IRREGULARCHAT: Space 3w ago

China’s Tianwen-3 mission is planned to become the first mission to deliberately collect Mars samples and return them to Earth. A 2025 *Nature Astronomy* perspective led by chief scientist Hou Zengqia

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