Naked Mole-Rat Queens Release a Chemical to Stop Other Females From Reproducing
It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining…
Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America | Environment
The low rumbling grows louder until a huge harvester crashes into the open, dragging a 15-metre trunk of…
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn | Space
Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that…
Every winter, a single beluga whale in the Arctic will dive to 700 metres and stay under for 25 minutes on a lungful of air compressed to 1/70th its surface volume, sustained by muscles so oxygen-rich they run nearly black when cut
A beluga whale slipping under the winter pack ice off western Greenland can descend to great depths, hold…
A glimpse of home was among the last images Voyager 1’s cameras ever sent. Just 34 minutes after taking the most distant photo of Earth ever, the cameras were powered off to conserve energy — going dark for good
There’s a small puzzle in the most famous photograph Voyager 1 ever took. The spacecraft looked back at…
Arizona hub to process 25,000 tpa of e-waste for rare earth recovery
Millions of discarded laptops, server drives, and electric motors sitting in waste streams hold the key to North…
The James Webb Space Telescope’s disappearing ‘Little Red Dots’ may lead to another cosmic puzzle
Paleontologists now know that many of the dinosaurs didn’t disappear but instead evolved into modern birds, and new…
A black bear’s heart drops from roughly 55 beats per minute to as few as 8 during hibernation, yet it emerges in spring with almost no muscle or bone loss: a biological trick space agencies are studying to protect astronauts on long missions
In summer, an American black bear’s heart beats around 55 times a minute. Deep in hibernation it can…
A global molecular code for birth order and neuronal identity in Drosophila
scRNA-seq data generation To discriminate technical from biological variability, we used flies from different genetic backgrounds19,77, enabling us…
The Aral Sea’s disappearance became one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters, but one corner refused to die |
In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of…
Planetary-mass exosatellite detected around the substellar companion of a star
Schneider, J., Dedieu, C., Le Sidaner, P., Savalle, R. & Zolotukhin, I. The extrasolar planets encyclopaedia: a database…
Elephants in Mozambique’s Gorongosa Park are being born tuskless at rates approaching 33% — a genetic signature of 15 years of civil-war ivory hunting that the population is now passing to its daughters
In the floodplains of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, roughly a third of the female elephants born after the…