Tiger numbers have increased but their habitat is still shrinking (c)ANO WCS and Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve Catherine Early 02/03/2024 11:00 3 min The programme uses Earth observation technology from NASA satellites and Google Earth Engine computing power with data such as from camera traps, sign surveys, and sightings of tigers to identify which landscapes need …
Insider Brief Non-Abelian topological order study was published in Nature this week. Last year, the Quantinuum-led team announced they were able to realize and control a state of matter known as non-Abelian topological order within a quantum processor.. The peer-review step marks an important part of the scientific journey for this research — and what …
A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is eating plankton on the surface. Rhincodon typus is a filter … [+] feeder. It swim slowly at the surface filtering plankton through their enormous gill slits. Getty Images Recent studies have illuminated predictable relationships between these majestic creatures and their surroundings, hinting at their heightened sensitivity to environmental changes. …
Did comets deliver the building blocks of life to Earth? If so, could they done so to other planets … [+] in the galaxy? getty A new study has revealed a way that comets and asteroids may spread the essentials for life around the galaxy. A longstanding theory exists has all of Earth’s water being …
A shark having babies? Not always newsworthy. But a shark having babies after the mother shark in question had not been in the company of a male shark since her arrival at the facility back in 2019? More newsworthy. This epaulette shark pup hatched Aug. 23, 2023, at Brookfield Zoo, born from what staff believe …
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Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent I hear them long before I see them. As I clamber out of my car in the parking lot near Point Piedras Blancas just off California’s Highway 1, the grunting noises of dozens of elephant seals fill the air. I walk quickly to the wooden viewing platform, lean up against the …
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Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Text by Tracy Scott Forson Although gorillas are the largest primates, weighing up to 440 pounds, their size has not made them impervious to human contact and climate change, which have sharply reduced populations. In 1989, only about 620 mountain gorillas remained, an order of magnitude lower than historic population …
A NASA spacecraft captured incredible imagery as it flew through an eruption from the sun recently. Pictures beamed back to scientists on Earth even show the fiery ejection “vacuuming up” space dust left over from the formation of the solar system. The fly-through by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took place on September 5 and NASA …
A new collaboration between between ecologists and art historians explored whether it’s possible to get accurate information about landscape ecology from nineteenth century paintings. They studied the work of the Hudson River School, particularly Asher Durand, to create a list of questions that could help other researchers decide which paintings (and artists) could hold clues …
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Anthony Ham Freelance writer The armed men aren’t supposed to be here. We are several miles inside Buffalo Springs National Reserve in northern Kenya, and the driver I hired for this reporting project and I are checking out a rumor that the reserve’s elephants may have gone missing. Nearly 8,000 elephants have inhabited the broader …