There's a Cave Full of Bats Infected by the 'Bleeding Eye' Virus. People Are Trespassing to See It, and Scientists Want It to Stop

While studying predators visiting Python Cave, home to bats confirmed to have Marburg virus, scientists observed hundreds of ...

Scientists sacrifice delicious opossums to fight Florida’s invasive pythons

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...
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Reassessing prediction in the brain: Pre-onset neural encoding during natural listening does not reflect pre-activation

This study presents valuable findings by reanalyzing previously published MEG and ECoG datasets to challenge the predictive nature of pre-onset neural encoding effects. The evidence supporting the ...
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A virologist’s nightmare: People and predators keep going into a cave full of bats with Marburg virus

As if its name didn’t warn you enough, there are many good reasons to avoid Python Cave in Uganda. Chief among them is that ...
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Camera traps film predators descending on cave filled with 40,000 bats. What happens next is staggering

Footage from Python Cave in Uganda shows leopards, monkeys and eagles all feasting on virus-riddled fruit bats. Scientists ...