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The study also points to the importance of behavioural experiments in the natural environment. Sound does not behave the same way inside tanks, and the reflections from walls can create complicated acoustic patterns that can make an animal’s response difficult to interpret. The ocean can hide an entire world beyond the reach of sight. For…

A person’s “brain age” may be different from their chronological age. For years, scientists have used brain scans to estimate this age and found that when the brain appears older than expected, it is associated with a pattern of poorer memory, weaker thinking skills and changes in mood. Most of these studies focused on older…

For decades, scientists linked Oklahoma’s Ames impact structure to a meteor event that swept across Earth nearly 470 million years ago. According to research published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science titled ‘The Ames impact structure, Oklahoma: New radioisotopic constraints and implications for North American impact chronology’, new evidence points to a very different timeline. By…

Burmese pythons in Florida’s Everglades are carrying three previously unknown RNA viruses, raising questions about whether viruses harboured by the invasive snakes could eventually affect native wildlife. A study published in the Journal of Virology examined 40 Burmese pythons captured in and around the site of a 2020 disease outbreak among eastern mudsnakes. Researchers did…

For the new study, researchers focused on a MOF known as BVR-19. Its distinctive feature is an unusual bond between sulfur atoms within its organic component. Hydrogen has long carried the promise of becoming a cleaner fuel, but making it sustainably remains one of the biggest challenges. Now, researchers at Oregon State University have developed…

There were many subsidiary burials around the tombs and enclosures. (Representational photo: La Nacion) Researchers have found new evidence that some people buried around the tombs of Egypt’s First Dynasty kings may have been deliberately killed after the rulers died. The finding published in journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, comes from a fresh examination of…

The team is now investigating which combinations of panel colour and transparency can produce the best balance between plant growth and electricity generation. Experiments involving red and blue panels are also being conducted under controlled conditions. What if the future of farming looked a little less green? In a Swedish experiment, rows of broccoli grew…

PC: Nelida Pohl/ BBC Wildlife Antarctica has only two native flowering plants, and both have spent years facing a warmer environment. A new seven-year field study found that Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) responded to long-term warming in different ways. Researchers placed open-top chambers around plants on King George Island to…

JUICE captures images of Earth during its flybyPhoto: ESA.int ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, used Earth’s gravity as a cosmic slingshot on September 28, 2026, reshaping its route to Jupiter while conserving precious fuel. Flying just 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean, the spacecraft had its trajectory deflected by 20 degrees and…

Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells into chitosan (Image Credit: Society for Science) A fishing trip along the Rio Grande led a La Joya, Texas, seventh-grader to investigate whether discarded shellfish shells could help remove pollution from water. Nathan Gael Montelongo became interested in the problem after a…