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![Why do we eat so many cows](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/03/why-its-so-hard-to-stop-eating-cows.jpeg?w=800)
Agriculture
Why cutting back on cow consumption is so hard
![A white rat pops its head out of a black box. Like in humans, the rat’s hippocampus is the part of the brain where mental maps of the world are stored.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/02/rats-imagination.png?w=800)
Animals
Rats may have imaginations
![A long torpedo-shaped fish swims among green plants. Knifefish like the black ghost knifefish are known for their shimmying motions and electrical pulses. and live in freshwater lakes and rivers in Central and South America.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/26/electric-knifefish-shimmy.png?w=800)
Animals
Why electric knifefish ‘shimmy’
![A fuzzy yellow and black bumblebee foraging on a green plant.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/23/bumblebee-nectar-foraging.png?w=800)
Animals
Bumblebees carbo-load on the fly
![rendering of coop structure in grass](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/19/Backyard-Rendering.png?w=798)
Agriculture
Finally, a smart home for chickens
![Coral Beach on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, dotted with various types of seaweed.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/17/seaweed-scotland-europe.png?w=800)
Agriculture
Europeans ate a lot more seaweed 8,000 years ago
![Red fall foliage on three-leaf sumac in Great Sand Dunes National Park](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/11/fall-foliage-three-leaf-sumac-nps.jpg?w=758)
Environment