Jessica Irvine 
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Cats may be carnivores but new research suggests our feline friends could potentially benefit from eating a vegan diet. A survey of cat owners found that those who …
A wolf from the Wolf Mountain Sanctuary, Lucerne Valley, United States. Credit: Courtney Clayton, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) In a study involving several wolves and dogs, both animals performed better at finding hidden food if they had observed the food being hidden by a person—suggesting that they remembered where the food was, and did not rely …
Hulking hunters like Burmese pythons may be famous for scarfing up deer, alligators and other enormous prey (SN: 11/25/15). But one unassuming little African snake may take the title for most outsized meals. The nonvenomous, nearly toothless Dasypeltis gansi can open its mouth wider than any other snake of its size, biologist Bruce Jayne reports …
Employers miss out on untapped potential when they overlook or discount abilities in the workplace. Credit: Shutterstock Dyslexia is the most common learning disability in the world, and up to 15 to 20% of the population has a language-based learning disability. If you don’t have dyslexia yourself, you likely know someone who does. Dyslexia is …
On the morning of September 5, a loosely swirling system of thunderstorms formed off the western coast of Africa. By September 6, the system had become a Category 1 storm, with maximum winds at least 130 kilometers per hour (80 miles per hour). Just 24 hours later, fueled by the record-warm waters of the North …
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter More than three-quarters of bumblebee species across Europe may be threatened in the next few decades unless plans are in place to tackle the effects of climate change, …
Research deconstructs the anatomy of the celebrity public apology and why the public is getting … [+] stingier with their forgiveness. GC Images Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are facing serious backlash regarding the character letters they wrote for their former That ‘70s Show co-star Danny Masterson, who is facing 30 years to life in …
In conventional magnets, spin and heat currents are relaxed by the same process. (Left) In ultraclean magnets, spin and heat currents are relaxed by different processes. (Right). Credit: KyotoU/Ryotaro Sano The term “quantum transport” may conjure images of a fantastic futuristic commuting option. In condensed matter physics, however, this is a fundamental concept in the …
Whether you like it or not, people are increasingly seeing art that was generated by computers. Everyone has an opinion about it, but researchers at the University of Vienna recently ran a small study to find out how people actually perceive computer-generated art. Could you tell if this was generated by a computer or a …
Some shoreline spiders, such as the long-jawed spider shown here, move mercury contamination from riverbeds up the food chain to land animals. Credit: Dr. Ryan Otter, Grand Valley State University Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. …