2+ hour, 9+ min ago  (455+ words) A new study published in the journal Science reveals how glacial climate and severe cold snaps may have shaped early human evolution using deep-sea sediment cores from Portugal. An international team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has…...

6+ hour, 9+ min ago  (327+ words) Insects in tropical forests already live in warm, stable conditions, but new research suggests the extra room many of them have to cope with rising heat could be smaller than expected. Researchers looking at more than 2,000 tropical insect species across…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (361+ words) A report gathers scientific data and warns about the impacts of deforestation, mining, and pollution on four animals unique to the Amazon, whose survival depends on urgent conservation measures and effective public policies. The Amazon hosts one of the largest…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (545+ words) A synthetic skin capable of "camouflaging" itself has been created in a California laboratory. Future applications for this new technology are numerous, leaving numerous doors open. At Stanford University in California, Dr Siddharth Doshi and his team have created a…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (284+ words) What has six legs, five eyes, two antennae, and can mentally do math? You might think about aliens, but the answer is the buzzing honeybees in your backyard. If we were ever to encounter any of this intelligent life, the…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (604+ words) A dairy farm in Sussex is now one of the most significant biodiversity hotspots in the UK. The latest survey confirms there has been huge rises in the populations of birds and insects. A former dairy farm in Sussex has…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (447+ words) Dogs diverged from wolves thousands of years ago, but new evidence suggests that the two lineages continued to exchange genes long after domestication. Using thousands of ancient and modern genomes, researchers detected low levels of ancient wolf ancestry in most…...