Two Days from Ed Yong

It's been quite a week for stories from Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science. All five of these (posted in three days) are good and well worth a peek:


One gait-keeper gene allows horses to move in unusual ways

(European Robin)
Robins start with a magnetic compass in both eyes, and end up with just one


Reading your body clock with a molecular timetable, inspired by flowers


Unlike humans, chimpanzees only punish when they’ve been personally wronged


We can learn new information when we sleep