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Social Sciences Sep 17, 2025

Science communication is a conversation, not a script

On 23 January 2020, reports became reality as the first COVID-19 case was detected in Australia. It was a grim foreshadowing of further disaster for a nation experiencing its most intense and catastrophic bushfire season, ...

Ecology Sep 16, 2025

Disease experts team up with museum to create a forecast for West Nile virus

A new study published in the journal Science of The Total Environment has significant bearing on the hackneyed joke about chickens and their numerous reasons for crossing roads. In Florida, there's a good chance that the ...

Plants & Animals Sep 10, 2025

Carrion crows can learn precise tool use

Animal training can teach carrion crows to use a stick tool to retrieve food. With increasing practice, they not only demonstrate great skill and achieve their objective in a few steps, they also respond flexibly to varying ...

Plants & Animals Sep 9, 2025

The surprising recovery of once-rare birds

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found.

Education Sep 4, 2025

New report reveals glaring gaps between Australia's future needs and science capabilities

Since 1945, three-quarters of all global economic growth has been driven by technological advances. Since 1990, 90% of that advance has been rooted in fundamental science, according to Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona ...

Archaeology Aug 27, 2025

Ancient DNA solves Plague of Justinian mystery to rewrite pandemic history

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the world's first recorded pandemic—in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the outbreak was first described ...

Education Aug 25, 2025

At a low point in US race relations, Black teachers are essential—and at risk

Millions of U.S. students are returning this month to schools that are struggling with strained resources, immigration crackdowns and divisive culture war fights. Teachers are under intense pressure—and UC Berkeley scholar ...

Plants & Animals Aug 7, 2025

Tracking tidal turtles: Researcher gathers data on native turtle species' summer breeding behavior

Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware pursue research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, especially during the summer months. Such experiences provided by UD—a nationally recognized research ...

Archaeology Jun 19, 2025

'Upstart Crow'—who insulted Shakespeare, and why?

New research has cast fresh doubt on the origins of one of the most famous insults aimed at William Shakespeare, pointing the finger at a friend of the Bard.

Plants & Animals Jun 19, 2025

Wild parrot species returns to its habitat in Atlantic Rainforest reserve

In early January 2025, 20 red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha), a parrot species that was extinct in the Brazilian state of Alagoas, began to be reintroduced into a thousand-hectare forest reserve in Coruripe, located ...

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