Despite their famously fancy feathers, flamingos don't spend more time preening than other waterbirds, new research shows. Scientists watched five of the world's six flamingo species to see how they spend their time.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2024
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As global temperatures inch upwards year after year, the world's glaciers retreat. These rivers of ice and the even larger ice sheets which cover Greenland and Antarctica are melting—and the melt is speeding up.
Ecology
Aug 1, 2024
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A team of researchers, including colleagues from the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, have transferred into common fruit flies genes from simple organisms capable of regenerating their bodies. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2024
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A small team of archaeologists in the Republic of Türkiye has identified a woman who was buried approximately 12,000 years ago in a neolithic settlement now called Çemka Höyük as a possible shaman.
Australia was once the world's largest exporter of live animals. But exports have declined in recent years.
Economics & Business
Jul 30, 2024
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The atmosphere, the ocean and life on Earth have interacted over the past 500-plus million years in ways that improved conditions for early organisms to thrive. Now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has produced a ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2024
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Humanity must rethink migration as the climate crisis drives rapid global changes, researchers say.
Environment
Jul 29, 2024
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Hair follicle infections are often difficult to treat because bacteria settle in the gap between hair and skin, where it is difficult for active substances to reach them.
Biotechnology
Jul 29, 2024
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Cocooned in white bags and nestled in the arms of volunteers, eight young rhim gazelles—an endangered species native to North Africa—have been transferred to an uninhabited Libyan island.
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2024
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A web of roads encircles the Earth and stretches 40 million miles. In Crossings, a new book by environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb, tarmac is exposed for the planet-shaping force it is—one that has polluted rivers and ...
Ecology
Jul 26, 2024
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