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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 Shark tourism – which allows people to dive with the creatures in their natural environment – may be seen as a way to raise money to conserve species …
Topline The Biden Administration plans to announce the cancellation of oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to multiple reports, a move that comes more than two years after the administration suspended the leases. A polar bear walks through an icy area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Sylvain …
Juvenile whale shark foraging in La Paz Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico Credit: Joel Gayford, Imperial College London Shark ecotourism—where individuals pay to swim with wild sharks—may increase the likelihood of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) exhibiting disturbed behavior patterns resembling the fast, zigzag movements associated with fleeing predators, suggests a paper published in Scientific Reports. …
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 An infant’s eyes temporarily changed colour from dark brown to deep blue after receiving a common Covid-19 treatment, doctors said. The baby boy, who lives in Thailand, was …
From shopping choices to perceptual judgments, our eyes reveal more about our decisions than we … [+] realize. getty Our daily decisions shape our experiences, be it as mundane as selecting an apple from a fruit stand or as important as choosing a house to buy. Every choice we make is a culmination of conscious …
Dark matter fluctuations in the lens system MG J0414+0534. The whitish blue color represents the gravitationally lensed images observed by ALMA. The calculated distribution of dark matter is shown in orange; brighter regions indicate higher concentrations of dark matter and dark orange regions indicate lower concentrations. Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), K. T. Inoue et al. New research, …
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 A cell therapy to improve hearing could transform the lives of millions of people with hearing loss, new research suggests. The therapy will see the first clinical trial …
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Having native plants in a garden can create a good environment for caterpillars, which are hearty food for birds Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons under CC By-SA 2.0 As a boy growing up in the 1960s, Doug Tallamy made daily visits to a pond on one of the last empty lots in his suburban New …
Researchers from IPK Leibniz Institute have investigated how the behavior of an individual wheat plant under limiting light conditions influences the performance of the whole community. Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ T. Schnurbusch One of the most significant drivers of crop evolution stems from the changes in the selection associated with the shift of plants from …
James was among the people experiencing homelessness who received a cash transfer as part of the study. Credit: Foundations for Social Change The public has the wrong idea about what homeless people would do after coming into a large amount of money. A University of B.C. study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy …