Search results for hunting and gathering

Mathematics Jun 4, 2024

How can we make good decisions by observing others? A videogame and computational model have the answer

How can disaster response teams benefit from understanding how people most efficiently pick strawberries together, or how they choose the perfect ice cream shop with friends?

Archaeology Jun 3, 2024

Researchers discover 400,000-year-old stone tools designed specifically for butchering fallow deer in Israel

A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 years ago to process fallow deer. The tools, called Quina scrapers (after the site in France where they ...

Plants & Animals Jun 3, 2024

Pelicans are starving: Scientists might know why

There's a broken link in the food chain of California's brown pelicans, adding a sad chapter to one of conservation's most striking success stories.

Ecology Jun 3, 2024

Hunting for edible plants with London's urban foragers

Kenneth Greenway is inundated with requests for the foraging courses that he runs at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in east London.

Cell & Microbiology May 31, 2024

The world famous Roman Baths could help scientists counter the challenge of antibiotic resistance

The world-famous Roman Baths are home to a diverse range of microorganisms which could be critical in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance, a new study suggests.

Molecular & Computational biology May 29, 2024

New sensing techniques can detect drought tolerance in ancient crops, may inform new breeding programs

Drought is the most devastating environmental stress that farmers face worldwide. With the added pressures of climate change, drought years have become less predictable, more frequent and more severe.

Ecology May 22, 2024

Opinon: Conservation areas stand between needs of local communities and preserving natural resources

For centuries the Makuleke community lived in the northeastern corner of South Africa, close to the modern-day border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But by the beginning of the 20th century, the squeeze on a disenfranchised ...

Archaeology May 22, 2024

Ancient people hunted now extinct elephants at Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile 12,000 years ago, study finds

Thousands of years ago, early hunter-gatherers returned regularly to Tagua Tagua Lake in Chile to hunt ancient elephants and take advantage of other local resources, according to a study published May 22 in the open-access ...

Plants & Animals May 20, 2024

Endangered migrating eagles impacted by Ukraine war, new study shows

A new study reveals for the first time the impact of ongoing conflicts on the migration of an endangered bird species. The paper "Active European Warzone Impacts Raptor Migration" was published in Current Biology on May 20.

Plants & Animals May 16, 2024

Rare deep-sea squid filmed at depth

A rare deep-sea squid has been captured on video at a depth of more than a kilometer underwater, by scientists from The University of Western Australia and Kelpie Geosciences in the UK.

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