• Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    More than a million large-nose antelopes now roam the Kazakhstan steppe, a big rebound from the 130,000 animals left after a fatal bacterial disease killed half of the population
  • Why Abortion Is Not Health Care
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    Consider that abortion is a procedure in which death is the outcome that defines success. Source
  • Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Simulations suggest that Earth could theoretically host two more moons the size of the one we've got now, or several smaller moons
  • Monkeys in Bali use stones as sex toys to fill their leisure time
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Male and female macaques in a Balinese sanctuary commonly use stone tools to masturbate, possibly because they have more leisure time than wild primates
  • Interstellar meteorite may be awaiting discovery on the sea floor
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A pair of astronomers say that classified US government sensors detected an interstellar meteor hitting Earth in 2014. Now they want to mount a $1.6 million expedition to find fragments of it on the sea floor
  • Mars astronauts would get unsafe radiation doses even with shielding
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Simulations show that a 1000-day mission to Mars would expose astronauts to radiation doses above 1 sievert, even with metal shielding
  • Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor
    Friday, August 12, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. Source
  • Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Source
  • What Is It Like to Be a Spider? 
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    A recent research article from Germany has made quite a splash in the popular media and raises some very interesting questions about animal minds. Source
  • Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    The risks of catching covid-19, or being vaccinated against it, during pregnancy have been debated throughout the pandemic, with research now overwhelmingly supporting that pregnant people get vaccinated
  • US CO2 shortage worsened by contaminated gas from an extinct volcano
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    An extinct volcano’s underground reservoir in Mississippi has supplied CO2 to US beverage makers and food processing companies for decades. But natural contamination has exacerbated an ongoing CO2 shortage
  • Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A 2021 experiment achieved the landmark milestone of nuclear fusion ignition, which data analysis has now confirmed – but attempts to recreate it over the last year haven’t been able to reach ignition again
  • Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Unlike people, 43 species of monkeys and apes are known to have so-called vocal membranes, which may prevent them from having precise voice control
  • Hovering robots could get more lift by 'treading water' in the air
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Moving like an insect may not be the most efficient way for tiny flying robots to hover – they get more lift by taking advantage of vortices of air that form under their wings
  • Cornea made from pig collagen gives people who were blind 20/20 vision
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Twenty people who were legally blind or visually impaired received a transplant of a cornea made from pig collagen. All of them had improved sight, including three who now have 20/20 vision after being legally blind
  • T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Some large, meat-eating dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex had keyhole-shaped eye sockets, and reconstructions suggest this helped them bite with greater force
  • Why thinking hard for several hours can leave you mentally exhausted
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Prolonged concentration may cause a compound called glutamate - which can be harmful at high levels - to accumulate in regions at the front of the brain
  • Engineers improve catalyst that destroys 'forever chemicals' with sunlight
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from NSF News
    Chemical engineers at Rice University have improved their design for a light-powered catalyst that rapidly breaks down PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, one of the world's most problematic "forever chemical" pollutants. These pollutants...
  • 'Plaza' in ancient city of Cahokia near today’s St. Louis was likely inundated year-round
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from NSF News
    The ancient North American city of Cahokia had as its focal point a feature now known as Monks Mound, a giant earthwork surrounded on its north, south, east and west by large rectangular open areas. These flat zones, called plazas by...
  • With drought in England more frequent, how can it keep water flowing?
    Thursday, August 11, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A growing population and climate change means the UK needs to consider long-term measures like major reservoirs and water transfers, not just short-term fixes like hosepipe bans
  • About Those “Synthetic Embryos”
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    I have no problem with this work in mice. But the scientists want to take this technology into human experimentation. Source
  • Vegetarian women have 33 per cent higher risk of breaking a hip
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A large study tracking women in the UK finds that vegetarians have a higher risk of breaking a hip compared with women who eat any amount of meat
  • From Intelligent Cause to Intelligent Design: My Debt to Charles Thaxton
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    It is my privilege and honor to recommend this fascinating autobiography — which is also perhaps the least I can do to repay a friend and mentor. Source
  • Brian Miller: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good an engineer was the one behind those living systems? Source
  • Half of Buenos Aires’s methane emissions may come from one landfill
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Around of a fifth of global methane emissions come from rotting landfills. Satellites have now spotted some particularly large emitters
  • Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Source
  • What Alaska's record-breaking wildfires mean for the Arctic's future
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Wildfires in Alaska have already burned more than three times as much territory as usual, and fire season isn't over – the environmental effects could last decades
  • Don't Miss: Netflix's new alternative reality drama Look Both Ways
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn't miss
  • Ants are under attack from outsiders in these intimate photos
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    These images, taken from new book The Guests of Ants, reveal the behaviour of myrmecophiles, sophisticated organisms from beetles to flies that infiltrate ant colonies to take advantage of them
  • Am I Normal? review: Deep-dive sets us straight on our need for norms
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    When it comes to human physiology, behaviour and social interaction, it is time to abandon a 200-year hunt for normal people, argues Sarah Chaney in her new book
  • Egyptian mummy’s head discovered in Kent attic
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Feedback explores an unexpected finding in Kent, while also looking into a Danish team’s experiments with jellyfish and the psychology of waiting around
  • Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Optimised for fusion research, millimetre-wave beam technology could be adapted to access the heat that lies several kilometres below Earth's surface, says Eugene Linden
  • Langya virus: How serious is the new pathogen discovered in China?
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Thirty five people are known to have been infected by Langya henipavirus in the Shandong and Henan provinces of China between December 2018 and May 2021
  • Shredded dwarf galaxies may lack dark matter to hold them together
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Many dwarf galaxies torn up by the gravity of nearby objects may not have any dark matter, which doesn't line up with our understanding of the universe – but they may be explained by a controversial alternate model of gravity
  • Big Tech and Civil War enthusiasts clash over historic US battlefields
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Northern Virginia is home to many American Civil War battlefield sites as well as the largest concentration of data centres in the world. Plans for more data centres are now pitting preservationists and big technology companies against...
  • NSF announces 4 new Engineering Research Centers focused on agriculture, health, manufacturing and smart cities
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from NSF News
    Engineering discoveries and advances have the power to make transformational positive impacts on society. For decades, the U.S. National Science Foundation has been a steadfast supporter of research centers that integrate engineering...
  • Nearly a hundred genes have been lost during the woolly mammoth's evolution
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from Evolutionary Biology News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study shows that 87 genes have been affected by deletions or short insertions during the course of the mammoth's evolution. The researchers note that their findings have implications for international efforts to resurrect extinct...
  • Evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from ScienceDaily: Origin of Life News
    New research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so of our planet's four-and-a-half-billion year history.
  • The power of quiet: The mental and physical health benefits of silence
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    In an increasingly noisy world, neuroscientists are discovering exactly what kind of silence has the most dramatic impact on your mental health – from flotation tanks to guided meditation – and how much you really need
  • Sponges can ‘sneeze’ and other sea creatures eat their mucus
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Despite having no nerves or muscles, sea sponges slowly contract to squeeze sand and debris out of the openings they feed through
  • Researchers pull record of 700,000 years of tropical climate change from an Andean lakebed
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from NSF News
    When Mark Abbott and his team pulled a 300-foot-long core of mud from a lakebed high in the Peruvian Andes, he hoped it might provide a glimpse of the past 160,000 years of climate change. Instead, the U.S. National Science...
  • Water resources to become less predictable with climate change
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from NSF News
    Water resources will fluctuate increasingly and become more and more difficult to predict in snow-dominated regions across the Northern Hemisphere by later this century, according to a comprehensive new climate change study led by the...
  • Roasting green chillies in the sun could pave way for solar cooking
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    An experiment using solar concentrators, which focus sunlight to a point, to roast green chillies suggests it may be possible to build portable solar cookers
  • How England's looming drought will hit the country's wildlife hard
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Birds, fish and insects in England are already under strain from extremely dry conditions, but an expected lengthy drought will hit wildlife even harder
  • On Sonorous Seas review: What a dead whale can tell us
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    When a beaked whale carcass washed up near her home, part of a mass stranding around the region, Mhairi Killin was inspired to launch an artistic challenge to the military's impact in the area
  • Underwater robot scans seabed to seek out the most harmful pollution
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A robot equipped with AI image recognition can identify and map rubbish on the seafloor to help prioritise clean-up operations towards the most toxic materials
  • Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from Evolution News & Views
    What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity. Source
  • Giant yellow crustacean in an aquarium turns out to be new species
    Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    A new species of creamy-yellow isopod was hiding in plain sight in Japan’s Enoshima Aquarium. It was first found in the Gulf of Mexico and mistaken for another species.
  • Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered
    Tuesday, August 9, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Metal-making practices described in a 2300-year-old text called the Kaogong Ji are more sophisticated than anyone realised
  • Bats show fewer signs of ageing while they are hibernating
    Tuesday, August 9, 2022 from New Scientist - Evolution
    Similarly to marmots, a brown bat species (Eptesicus fuscus) expresses reduced ageing biomarkers while hibernating
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