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Plants & Animals Nov 8, 2024

Elephant turns a hose into sophisticated showering tool

Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report in Current Biology on November 8, 2024, highlights elephants' remarkable ...

Plants & Animals Nov 7, 2024

Study suggests that space-for-time substitutions exaggerate habitat–bird ecological relationships

As bird populations dwindle across the globe, a new study from University of Vermont researchers suggests some species may be more flexible to habitat changes than previously understood, creating new opportunities for supporting ...

Plants & Animals Nov 6, 2024

Are these tiny insects the world's laziest bugs?

At less than 3mm long, you may not think Dunatothrips aneurae seem like much. And—as I have shown in a new study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology—you'd be absolutely right. That's because these may be the world's ...

Social Sciences Oct 28, 2024

Colored South Africans are all but erased from history textbooks. I asked learners how that makes them feel

South African singer-songwriter Tyla made history in February 2024 when she won the inaugural Grammy for Best African Music Performance.

Political science Oct 26, 2024

Most Republican states have made voting harder since 2020—our research shows how successful they've been

In late September, the governor of the state of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, boasted that election officials had removed 453,000 people from the state's voter rolls since 2021. In a state with only 2.3 million registered voters, ...

Plants & Animals Oct 23, 2024

Ground nesting birds declining faster than any other bird species in Europe

Ground-nesting bird populations are more likely to be in decline than any other European bird species, warns new report.

Political science Oct 23, 2024

Many wealthy members of Congress are descendants of rich slaveholders: New study

The legacy of slavery in America remains a divisive issue, with sharp political divides.

Plants & Animals Oct 22, 2024

The whip-poor-will has been an omen of death for centuries. What happened to this iconic bird of American horror?

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King's 1975 novel "Salem's Lot," a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a troubling thought overtakes ...

Plants & Animals Oct 22, 2024

Genetically modified chickens reveal testosterone's complex role in both male and female birds

Why does the rooster crow and the hen does not? This question prompted the scientist Arnold Adolph Berthold to castrate a rooster in the mid-19th century. The result of his experiment: the rooster's morning crow was over. ...

Evolution Oct 16, 2024

Alaska's Iliamna Lake Harbor seals are genetically isolated from entire Pacific Ocean, research reveals

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 kilometers from the ocean in ...

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