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Desmond Morris in 1956 with the chimpanzees Congo and Charlie on the show "Zoo Time," a Granada Television series he hosted about animals at the London Zoo.
Retraction Watch - 18 hours 21 min agoA leading pharmacologist in Italy accused of embezzling research funds is now the subject of coordinated editorial action by one of the field's professional societies. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics announced expressions of concern for 12 papers, corrections for two and a retraction in an editorial published April 3 in The Journal … Continue reading Major pharmacology journals flag another 15 papers by scientist facing criminal probe...
An injured kea with just half a beak has used what's left as a weapon that gives him dominance over a captive colony of the birds...
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Kea parrot missing his upper beak "has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex species."...
The new playing fields are rolling out in stadiums from Mexico to Canada. Creating the perfect pitch in very different climates requires the right grasses and some creative tricks.
Pulling together the results of 40 experiments done by different teams over decades, researchers found that infant boys and girls equally tune in to human faces and voices.
The Grand Canyon may owe its shape to a giant ancient lake that, after collecting water for a million years, finally couldn't hold any more. A new study in Science backs the long-argued "lake spillover" idea, suggesting the ancestral Colorado River once pooled in northern Arizona about 6.6 million...
Don't blame a menopause fad. There is little incentive for pharmacy companies to ensure smooth, consistent access.
A longitudinal study found that loneliness is more closely linked to lapses in immediate and delayed recall than to the overall speed of cognitive decline.
Competition closes 00:00BST 21/05/2026 The post Win a smart bird feeder worth 279.99 appeared first on How It Works .
Cancer cells are known for their "glutamine addiction," but many can escape this weakness by switching to alternative fuels. Researchers found that vitamin B7 acts like a metabolic "license," enabling this escape route through a key enzyme. Without biotin, cancer cells lose that flexibility and stop growing. Mutations in a cancer-linked gene can make this vulnerability even stronger, offering a promising new target for therapy.
President Trump says the White House is formally probing a rash of cases involving US-linked scientists who've died or vanished in recent years, amid weeks of online speculation and tabloid chatter. "I hope it's random," Trump told reporters, calling the situation "pretty serious stuff" and saying federal investigators will review...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 6 hours agoFilmmakers have been exploring and capturing Australia's connection with war since the earliest days of the Anzacs. The post The Anzac legend on film appeared first on Australian Geographic .
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GeekSpin - 1 day 10 hours agoBrace yourself for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle that sounds almost too unreal to believe: NASA has confirmed that the massive "God of Chaos" asteroid, known as Apophis, will streak past Earth so closely it will slip beneath the orbit of many satellites. Remarkably, the asteroid is expected to be bright enough to be seen with […] Read the original article here: NASA says giant asteroid will skim closer to Earth than satellites...
Nature - 1 day 10 hours agoResearchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot and caught hundreds of humans visiting.
Nature - 1 day 10 hours agoComputer scientists share their advice for ensuring that your scientific software does what it's supposed to do.
Blue Origin's reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn's upper stage did not.
NPR - 1 day 22 hours agoA scientific instrument on the Voyager 1 has been shut off to conserve power as the probe continues its interstellar exploration.
Retraction Watch - 2 days 48 min agoIf you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you're familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time before her supersense for spotting similarities in images wasn't making headlines. But it was 10 years ago, on April 19, 2016, when she made … Continue reading 10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world...
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