Why do bears rub against trees? New explanations are here
Agnieszka Sergiel, a bear biologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences and an author of the study published last month in the Journal of Zoology, said...
In memoriam Barbara Stanley, influential suicide researcher, dies at...
31 Jan 2023The idea of a written document was not new. For years, clinicians had asked patients to sign a “no-suicide contract,” effectively promising their...
Political roadblocks It’s not going well for Britain’s new PM
31 Jan 2023Even a great statesman would need more than three months to make headway on such deep-rooted social ills.
Tales from the crypt: Mummified crocodiles emerge from an Egyptian...
30 Jan 2023The mummies were among 10 adult crocodiles, likely from two different species, the remains of which were unearthed recently from a tomb at Qubbat...
Sentience challenges AI: Actually insipid until actively insidious
30 Jan 2023When AI hurtles into adulthood and isn’t so artificial anymore, we’ll be relegated to being the family pets, as a resigned Steve Wozniak put it.
Rare island bunnies do a parasitic plant’s bidding
28 Jan 2023While scientists had long figured that B. yuwanensis relied on the wind to spread its seeds, dense plants growing beneath the tree canopy cut down on...
Empire unravels: UK’s cautionary tale of self-destruction
27 Jan 2023Great Britain has long since formally relinquished its dreams of world domination, but the implied bargain of imperial retreat was something like a...
In memoriam: K Alex Muller, innovator in ceramic superconductors
24 Jan 2023In the decades that followed, scientists made incremental progress at discovering materials that became super-conductive at higher temperatures.