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“We are introducing a brand-new, lifelike material concept powered by its very own artificial metabolism. We are not making something that’s alive, but we are creating materials that are much more lifelike than have ever been seen before,” said Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental …

Learning to sing is a complex task for a juvenile zebra finch, right. They must learn the song of their father, center, and a new study demonstrates that they also need to pay attention to the responses their immature singing elicits from females, left, in order to learn a high-quality song.