
Ars Technica - 1 day 19 hours ago
Spare a thought for the intrepid graduate students who spent last summer in Africa collecting chimp urine.

Ars Technica - 1 day 20 hours ago
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.

Retraction Watch - 2 days 2 hours ago
Racking up 35 retractions in just 24 months, chemist Hitler Louis has scored a place on our leaderboard. The papers at issue, most of them published in Elsevier and Royal Society of Chemistry journals, exhibit a variety of problems, according to the retraction notices: identical plots supposedly representing different chemical systems, self-citations multiplying between manuscript … Continue reading Chemist nears three dozen retractions for image duplication, self-citation and more....

Wired - 2 days 2 hours ago
New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 5 hours ago
Described as nature's "self-repairing engine," short-term species turnover isn't increasing as scientists expect and that's a problem.

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 8 hours ago
In a room filled with pounding noises and clanging cowbells, L.A. County deputies learn that sometimes the best way to handle a crisis is to simply wait.

Australian Geographic - 2 days 18 hours ago
An Aussie professor has spearheaded the creation of a global resource that's shaking up birdwatching and research the world over. The post A new bird order appeared first on Australian Geographic .