Life
Researchers analysing 469 rumbles from wild African elephants in Kenya found that calls contained name-like information identifying their…
Sep 6, 2026
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Earth & Environment
Canada built 44 bridges and tunnels across a single stretch of highway so that animals could cross without dying, and collisions with…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
Life
In 2006, University of Washington biologist John Marzluff wore a caveman mask while trapping and banding seven Seattle crows
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
About a tenth of what comes out of malt whisky production is spirit, while Scotland's malt whisky industry produces almost 750,000 metric…
Sep 6, 2026
Life
Black vultures nested a metre or two from an incubating Chaco eagle on an abandoned Argentine hunting tower, and the eagle's egg was gone…
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
President Trump's September 4, 2026 executive order directs USDA to widen three existing pathways
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Africa's plan for an 8,000-kilometer wall of trees against the Sahara kept dying in the ground for years, and the approach that finally…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
An Australian solar farm has shared its rows with 1,700 merino sheep for three years, and the farmer says the fleece tests on wool growth…
By Brendan Brown · Sep 6, 2026
Life
Thirty-five dogs watched forty second videos of three human faces, one of them their own owner's, and blinked at a higher rate when the…
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
Namibia's capital has been drinking its own sewage since 1968, when eight years of pilot work produced a system whose current plant pushes…
Sep 6, 2026
Physics
In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and…
Sep 6, 2026
Physics
On 16 January 1913, an unknown accounts clerk at the Madras Port Trust mailed Cambridge mathematician G.H
Sep 6, 2026
Earth & Environment
A Brazilian couple took over a badly degraded former cattle farm and in 1998 founded an organisation to restore its Atlantic Forest
Sep 6, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Peter Mark Roget began privately arranging words by meaning in 1805, while still a young physician
Sep 5, 2026