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Our new tech helps find hidden details in whale, cassowary and other barely audible animal calls
Over the past few decades, animal sounds have seen a huge surge in research
Five ways to improve the global voluntary carbon credit markets
The severity of climate change means we all need to reduce our carbon footprint...
Watching sports is good for you – thanks to its social bonding effects
Being a sports fan, whether you’re watching top flight football, the Olympic games...
Did plague really decimate Neolithic farmers 5,200 years ago, as a new study suggests?
The researchers analysed both the ancient DNA of these people’s skeletal remains...
Weight-loss jabs linked to lower cancer risk compared with insulin – new study
Obesity increases the risk of developing a number of cancers, so it stands to reason...
Look up! A once-in-a-lifetime explosion is about to create a ‘new’ star in the sky
Any night now, a “new star” or nova will appear in the night sky. While it won’t...
Why consciousness may have evolved to benefit society rather than individuals
Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology?
When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’
A researcher working alone – apart from the world and the rest of the wider scientific...
Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point
The melting of one of North America’s largest icefields has accelerated and could...
How hurricanes will change as the Earth warms
When Hurricane Beryl hit the Grenadine Islands on July 1, its 150-mph winds and...
Busy soundscapes of seagrass meadows and the animals that live there revealed in new recordings – podcast
Seagrass, a marine plant that flowers underwater, has lots of environmental benefits...
The brain might also have a microbiome – what you need to know
The microbes that live in your gut are having their moment in the sun
We finally know why some people got COVID while others didn’t
Throughout the pandemic, one of the key questions on everyone’s mind was why some...
How (apparently) identical animals can have different genomes – new research
Logically speaking, you would think that animals who appeared to be the same – even...
Even short trips to space can change an astronaut’s biology − a new set of studies offers the most comprehensive look at spaceflight health since NASA’s Twins Study
Only about 600 people have ever traveled to space. The vast majority of astronauts...
Lucy, discovered 50 years ago in Ethiopia, stood just 3.5 feet tall − but she still towers over our understanding of human origins
In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist...