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Plants & Animals Mar 24, 2023

Want to help protect rare birds in nesting season? Keep your dog on its leash

There are few sights more joyful than a dog bounding through the countryside. But for ground-nesting birds and other wildlife, the experience is quite different.

Evolution Mar 22, 2023

Bird-brained? Climate change may affect intelligence in birds

Large brains are a hallmark of human evolution. Brains allow us to make sense of the world and to successfully navigate through our lives.

Quantum Physics Mar 21, 2023

Time-delocalized variables violating causal inequalities

A team of researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the French National Center for Scientific Research have shown for the first time that an exotic type of process violating causal inequalities can be realized ...

Social Sciences Mar 21, 2023

30 years of child welfare data collection reveals systemic inequities, racism and harm in Canada

In 2007, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (the Caring Society) and the Assembly of First Nations filed a complaint under the Canadian Human Rights Act, arguing that the Government of Canada's inequitable ...

Evolution Mar 20, 2023

Bones like Aero chocolate: The evolution adaptation that helped dinosaurs to fly

It's sometimes difficult to imagine how the planet we call home, with its megalopolis cities and serene farmlands, was once dominated by dinosaurs as big as buses and five-story buildings. But recent research has helped deepen ...

Plants & Animals Mar 17, 2023

Chicago birders rejoice as Arctic gull makes rare visit to local beaches: 'This is about as good as it gets'

It was 8:15 on a Saturday morning when Woody Goss' phone started buzzing.

Plants & Animals Mar 15, 2023

Animal personalities can trip up science, but there's a solution

Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder whether he was giving his crows enough credit. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and his team were capturing wild New Caledonian crows and ...

Archaeology Mar 14, 2023

Were there gladiators in Roman Britain? An expert reviews the evidence

In 1853, a Roman vase was found being used as a container for ashes in a grave outside Roman Colchester. Dating to the later second century AD, it depicted four gladiators with their names scratched into the surface of the ...

Environment Mar 2, 2023

Battle simmers in Illinois over plans to pipe in and store millions of tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide

On a subfreezing day in January, John Feltham drove his two-seat Kawasaki utility vehicle over neatly furrowed fields glistening with snow. There were deer and coyote tracks, black crows flapping against a powder blue sky, ...

Evolution Mar 2, 2023

Why prey animals often see threats where there are none—and how it costs them

For a nervous horror fan, an evening watching HBO's hit post-apocalyptic television show The Last of Us might be followed by a restless night under the duvet. The silhouette of a coat slung over the back of a chair or even ...

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