Africa's pangolin crisis: The delicacy that's driving a species to the brink
The vast majority of pangolin hunting in African forest landscapes is done for meat consumed by peop ...View More
Toxic tides: Centuries-old mercury is flooding the arctic food chain
Despite global reductions in mercury emissions, mercury concentrations in Arctic wildlife continue t ...View More
Invisible ID: How a single breath could reveal your health—and your identity
Your breath is one of a kind. A study published June 12 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology de ...View More
New MIT study reveals how biofilms help stop microplastic build-up
The accumulation of microplastics in the environment, and within our bodies, is an increasingly worr ...View More
The global rule that predicts where life thrives—and where it fails
A simple rule that seems to govern how life is organized on Earth is described in a new study publis ...View More
2,000 miles through rivers and ice: Mapping neanderthals’ hidden superhighways across eurasia
Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe ...View More
Earth's core mystery solved: How solid rock flows 3,000 kilometers beneath us
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates -- these are all signs that our planet is ...View More
160 million years ago, this fungus pierced trees like a microscopic spear
Blue-stain fungi constitute a distinctive group of wood-colonizing fungi which lack the ability to d ...View More
Extreme weather is wiping out amphibians—Here’s where it’s worst
The fire salamander native to Europe is one of many species that depend on sufficient moisture. C ...View More
First direct observation of the trapped waves that shook the world in 2023
In September 2023, a bizarre global seismic signal was observed which appeared every 90 seconds over ...View More
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