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Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms

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First up this week, online editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how cats think about their own bodies. Do cats think of themselves as a liquid, as much the internet appears to believe? New experiments suggest they may—but only in one dimension.

Next, freelance producer Ariana Remmel is joined by Ted Schultz, a research entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, to discuss the evolution of ant-fungus farming. It turns out, ants and fungus got together when the earth was going through some really tough times around 66 million years ago.

This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.

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Authors: Sarah Crespi; Ariana Remmel; David Grimm

Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zlav1o2

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