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Social Sciences Jun 18, 2025

Smartphones are once again setting the agenda for justice as the Latino community documents ICE actions

It has been five years since May 25, 2020, when George Floyd gasped for air beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer at the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue. Five years since 17-year-old Darnella Frazier stood ...

Plants & Animals Jun 4, 2025

Study shows how smart limpets keep their cool in warming climate

Humble limpets clinging to rocky shores around Aotearoa are surprisingly savvy when it comes to climate change adaptation, a new University of Canterbury study shows. Dr. Spencer Virgin, a postdoctoral fellow at Te Whare ...

Environment Jun 3, 2025

What birds can teach us about repurposing waste

Modern cities are evolution engines. Urban snails in the Netherlands and lizards in Los Angeles have developed lighter shells and larger scales to cope with the heat island effect, where temperatures can be several degrees ...

Political science Jun 2, 2025

Three ways the government can silence opinions it disagrees with, without using censorship

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That's when a government directly blocks or suppresses speech. In the past, the federal government has censored speech in various ways. ...

Plants & Animals May 26, 2025

Street smarts: Cooper's hawk uses pedestrian crossing signal to ambush urban prey

A University of Tennessee researcher documented an immature Cooper's hawk using vehicle traffic and pedestrian signal patterns as concealment during hunting behavior at a suburban intersection.

Plants & Animals May 23, 2025

Philosophers and scientists collaborate to study consciousness and perception in corvids

Many of us as children may have wondered what's going on inside the mind of an animal—what are they thinking and feeling? Most animal researchers study science because of their fascination with animals, but for a long time ...

Plants & Animals May 9, 2025

Five insights about birds in San Francisco's community gardens

A community garden in the heart of a city can be an oasis—an island of greenery where people can escape the sounds of traffic, sink their hands into the earth, and connect with the natural world. These spaces can be especially ...

Agriculture May 6, 2025

Upcycled grape pomace in chicken feed may improve their gut health

New York state's grape industry produces 30,000 pounds of grape pomace waste each year. Nationally, that number is roughly 1 million pounds.

Plants & Animals Apr 16, 2025

No kidding: Goats prove brainier than sheep and alpacas

When we think about intelligent animals, farm species aren't usually the first to spring to mind. We may picture tool-using primates or puzzle-solving crows. But my recent research suggests that sheep, goats and alpacas—staples ...

Plants & Animals Apr 14, 2025

Crows can recognize geometric regularity

A trio of animal physiologists at the University of Tübingen, in Germany, has found that at least one species of crow has the ability to recognize geometric regularity. In their study published in the journal Science Advances, ...

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