Wild monkeys challenge a long-held assumption about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees
Wild sooty mangabey monkeys can bend the middle of their feet almost as much as chimpanzees flex their…
Weatherwatch: Climate crisis fuelling steep fall in migratory bird numbers | Birds
It may still feel like summer, but in the world of birds, autumn migration is already well under…
The threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to tipping point of permafrost | Environment
Heatwaves and wildfires are not just scorching forests, they are adding to the tipping point risks in the…
Watch Rocket Lab launch a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit today
Rocket Lab will launch a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit this morning (Aug. 20), and you can…
Ultrafast triggering of strong coupling in a semiconductor terahertz Fabry-Pérot cavity
THz characterization of a photo-excited thin Si wafer When a semiconductor is excited above band-gap, its optical properties…
The ‘world’s first rewilded sharks’ are being raised by shark nannies
EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing…
Nuclear locale sways gene activity during brain development
As neural stem cells mature into neurons, developmental genes move from the edge of the cell nucleus toward…
What if our cities were designed for wildlife as well as people?
On a warm evening in May, swifts scream over rooftops, chasing insects above the traffic. A fox slips…
Scientists create ‘laundry gun’ for astronauts to clean their clothes by shooting out plasma
If you have ever shared a room with multiple people for days on end, you may know how…
IBM’s Modular Quantum Cryogenics Solves Space, Not Scaling
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In 1964, a 27-year-old woman bought an abandoned 18 acre island off Maine and built a small house to live there alone; 22 years later the island was donated to become a wildlife sanctuary
Before it was a wildlife sanctuary, it was a woman’s abode. Witch Island is an approximately 18-acre land…
NASA updates next steps for Commercial Swift Boost mission
NASA and Katalyst Space have said the LINK spacecraft will no longer attempt to capture and boost the…