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Online and undercover: Saving trafficked wildlife in Thailand
Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures h
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Cracking the ageing code
Where financial health meets human longevity.
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Coyote density is 9 times higher in Seattle than in Washington's wildlands
Once coyotes get a taste for city living, the call of the wild fades to a whisper. Food is abundant and predators are few. Research indicate
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Ancient teeth reveal humans were getting high 25,000 years ago
Ancient human remains from Sulawesi suggest people were habitually using the psychoactive betel nut as far back as 25,000 years ago. Researc
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Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.
Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human
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Anthropic researcher resigns with warning about the dangers of AI development
An Anthropic researcher said he is resigning from the company over concerns the artificial intelligence firm and its competitors are not act
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A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests
The prediction that this season's El Niño phenomenon will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community, which has
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UNESCO warns there’s close to a 100% chance of a Mediterranean tsunami
The Mediterranean may seem far removed from the world’s major tsunami zones, but history and modern modeling show that destructive waves can
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‘One of the biggest discoveries in science’: have scientists found dark matter? – podcast
For decades physicists have been puzzling over the enigma of dark matter. We think it makes up 85% of the matter in the universe, but the my
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Timing 1080 drops to prevent predators bouncing back
While aerial 1080 drops sharply reduce numbers of rats and stoats, the predators—especially ship rats—can rebound to higher numbers within a
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Can AI tame torrential rain by 2050? The next frontier of weather control and forecasting
Japan has been experiencing increasingly severe damage from torrential rainfall triggered by typhoons and stationary linear rain bands. In r
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AI and big data can help logistics companies navigate supply-chain disruptions
Artificial intelligence and big-data capacity might help logistics companies withstand supply-chain disruptions by making them more agile an
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Four in five researchers report harmful interactions during geoscience fieldwork. A new survey suggests a path forward.
Fieldwork is a vital part of geoscience research, allowing scientists and students to directly observe, interact with and collect data about
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400,000-year-old teeth reveal a hidden link in human evolution
More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and so
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August was joint hottest month on record, says European climate agency
Climate change and the rising influence of El Niño saw August reach the record for warmest month.
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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy reveals the surface chemistry of bio-based hybrid materials
Just a few atomic layers at the surface can strongly influence how effectively a material binds pollutants from water or how efficiently a p
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August was the joint hottest month on record
Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and further heat is on
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Luck or merit? Not all inequality is equally acceptable
Do you think it's fair that some people are better off financially than others? Does it perhaps matter whether those earnings stem from a lo
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The trapdoor spiders giving a leg up to science
WA's trapdoor spiders are endangered. Jackson Rendall is here to help—because he thinks they're "just really cool."
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CEO politics may shape how companies compete
Decisions such as whether to cut prices, launch a product, open a new facility or make an acquisition are among those companies that conside
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Raindrops can damage paint with microscopic “lightning”
Scientists discovered that charged water droplets can damage protective coatings by releasing tiny electrical discharges when they hit a sur
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Q&A: Satellite imagery reveals what casualty figures alone do not tell us
How do we form a picture of conflicts? A new study published in the journal Nature explores how different types of data can be combined to g
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Polarized trust in scientists driven by values, identity and politics
Trust in scientists in the UK is strong overall, with 63% indicating they have high trust in scientists in general—but a major new study fin
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Eight PFAS compounds detected at low concentrations in Melbourne rain
Researchers from RMIT University and EPA Victoria detected eight PFAS compounds in rainwater samples collected in Melbourne between 2024 and
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