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Plants & Animals Mar 2, 2023

Long-tailed macaques react with disappointment when their expectations are not met: Evolutionary insights into fairness

A sense of fairness has long been considered purely human—but animals also react with frustration when they are treated unequally by a person. For instance, a well-known video shows monkeys throwing the offered cucumber at ...

Social Sciences Feb 24, 2023

The history of teaching black history

Although Black History Month wasn't established until the 1970s, Black teachers in the segregated Jim Crow South, particularly women, had been teaching Black history for decades prior, and were vital to its accuracy and preservation.

Plants & Animals Feb 23, 2023

Science can prevent extinctions for species on the brink of death

New research examining the perilous state of dying species calls for urgent international conservation efforts to develop unified management plans that could help plants and animals return from the brink of extinction.

Archaeology Feb 22, 2023

Hidden from the Romans: 200 tons of silver on the shores of the river Lahn

In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD. This discovery is the result of research carried out as part of a teaching excavation that ...

Ecology Feb 22, 2023

Climate change, urbanization drive major declines in L.A.'s birds

Climate change isn't the only threat facing California's birds. Over the course of the 20th century, urban sprawl and agricultural development have dramatically changed the landscape of the state, forcing many native species ...

Social Sciences Jan 30, 2023

How 20 minute neighborhoods are about more than proximity

The desire to reduce car dependence is about promoting health, well-being and social equity and cohesion as much as it is about transitioning to a zero-carbon economy.

Economics & Business Jan 26, 2023

Rural water infrastructure development research demonstrates ethnically, racially uneven economic outcomes

A research study led by J. Tom Mueller, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, was ...

Plants & Animals Jan 17, 2023

Study shows clever birds need caring parents

Brains are key organs because they make sense of the world and help us successfully navigate through our lives. While all animals have brains, some species have rather large brains relatively to their body size—and this is ...

Plants & Animals Jan 5, 2023

Effects of highly pathogenic avian influenza on canids

Researchers at Hokkaido University have revealed the effects of high pathogenicity avian influenza virus infection on an Ezo red fox and a Japanese raccoon dog, linking their infection to a recorded die-off of crows.

Evolution Dec 21, 2022

New fossil foot analysis reveals the surprising and varied lifestyles of dinosaur bird ancestors

Have you ever eaten chicken feet? If you haven't, you might be surprised to learn there's actually quite a bit of flesh down there. And scales too! They're wonderful—and informative—pieces of engineering.

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