
Last Word On Nothing - 10 hours 40 min ago
Tomorrow, I fly down to the Magellanic penguin colony at Punta Tombo, Argentina, to apply some small tracking tags to penguins before they set off on their journeys north. I wrote this post a few years ago at the end of the same sort of trip, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing the […] The post Redux: The Molt appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Australian Geographic - 14 hours 13 min ago
A UNESCO-recognised WA biosphere reserve is in ruins after fire, yet the catastrophe has barely rated a national headline. The post Fitzgerald River: Australia's burning secret appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Discover Magazine - 14 hours 39 min ago
Learn how fossils from Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have started life on four legs before walking on two as an adult.

Science Alert - 16 hours 47 min ago
"We can construct it."...

Los Angeles Times - 18 hours 25 min ago
Researchers found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is accelerating. It's been topic of intense scientific inquiry for years.

Nature - 18 hours 40 min ago
Proteins assume complex 3D shapes even faster than does DNA, which is a simpler molecule.

Nature - 18 hours 40 min ago
A blend of chemistry and molecular-biology techniques are enabling archaeologists to mine ancient sediments for clues about the people who once lived there.

Nature - 18 hours 40 min ago
The supplement's anti-ageing effect was greater in people who were already biologically older than their years.

Newser - 1 day 3 hours ago
If you just waved enthusiastically at a total stranger, science has some advice: chuckle, don't cringe. A series of six experiments involving more than 3,000 people, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , found that when someone responds to a harmless gaffe by laughing at themselves, observers...

Ars Technica - 1 day 7 hours ago
Small size seems to have come before a change in diet for a tiny dinosaur lineage.

Science Alert - 1 day 7 hours ago
It breaks the rules.

NBC News - 1 day 8 hours ago
A superbloom in Death Valley National Park this year is the most spectacular in a decade. It's a result of extra rain in the fall and early winter.

Wired - 1 day 9 hours ago
A recent study suggests that left-handed people have an advantage in competitive contexts, while righties tend to cooperate better.

BBC - 1 day 10 hours ago
Campaigners say the eco-system rarity does not have enough legal protection.

BBC - 1 day 11 hours ago
Bristol Water is using ancient hedge laying techniques to improve biodiversity near Blagdon lake.

Newser - 1 day 13 hours ago
Mathematics' great tale about the man who tamed infinity just got a messy rewrite. In Quanta Magazine , Joseph Howlett reports on newly surfaced letters that suggest Georg Cantor's landmark 1874 paper famous for proving that some infinities are bigger than others lifted key results from fellow German mathematician Richard Dedekind...

Science Daily - 1 day 15 hours ago
Scrolling on your phone while sitting on the toilet might be doing more harm than you think. A new study found that people who use smartphones during bathroom visits had a 46% higher risk of hemorrhoids compared to those who don't. Researchers discovered that phone users tend to spend significantly longer on the toilet, often getting distracted by news or social media, which may increase pressure on anal tissues.

Ars Technica - 1 day 21 hours ago
Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.

NBC News - 2 days 1 hour ago
An ambitious goal to refill Utah's Great Salt Lake by the 2034 Olympics is gaining momentum, with environmental groups, the Romney family and President Trump all in support.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 4 hours ago
Through the Artemis Program , NASA hopes to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon in its southern polar region. China, Russia, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have similar plans, all of which involve building bases near the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) craters that contain water ice that dot the South Pole-Aitken Basin. For these and other agencies, it is vital that these bases be as self-sufficient as possible since resupply missions cannot be launched regularly and take several...

Retraction Watch - 2 days 7 hours ago
If your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 63,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: The LLMs willing to commit academic fraud'; peer replication' instead of review; a spam filter' for predatory journals...

PBS Newshour - 2 days 18 hours ago
All of us experience consciousness. We have thoughts and feelings, and we're aware of those acting upon us. It's the hidden internal lens through which we view the world, but why do we have this power, and are we the only ones that do? Horizons moderator William Brangham explores this defining aspect of being human with Michael Pollan, author of "A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness." PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast...