Earth & Climate

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Photo worth seeing: A new orchid species

Here, an orchid stretches its unique blooms for the sunlight. This flower isn't just special because of its looks: it's also a newly...
Elijah Burt -
Earth & Climate

Birds: what the scent of the rump secretion is used for

Birds use the oil from their preen glands to clean themselves. © Hayley Crews, Oliver Krueger In addition to hearing and sight, birds also...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Sharks turn out to be sleeping – in a pretty creepy way

It was unclear for a long time whether the still mysterious shark needs sleep. But now it turns out that wide-eyed sharks...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Researchers use solar panels that extract water vapor from the air to sprout spinach

The clever invention is a sustainable and cheap way to provide people who live in arid desert areas with sufficient food and water. Most...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Happy and sad grunts captured

Is that a happy pig? Apparently this can be determined from his sounds. © Fotosmurf03/iStock A pig's grunting and squeaking reflects whether it...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Unsolvable ‘sudoku’ from eighteenth century solved with quantum tricks

Physicists have managed to crack an age-old puzzle without a solution by using principles from quantum mechanics. Imagine six regiments, each of which...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Roundworm with mini brain makes some pretty smart decisions

A worm with quite a small brain uses its bite thoughtfully to monitor its food supply. At first glance, the eating behavior of the...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Scientists hunt for the oldest ice on Earth

The ice – hidden some 2,700 meters deep in the Antarctic ice sheet – could be up to 1.2 million years old and...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Scientists can now predict when Dutch beaches will be flooded with waste

And that makes cleaning it up a lot easier. It is a somewhat sad sight: beautiful sandy beaches that are full of dumped, mostly...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Ocean: “Eco-friendly” sunscreen damages protozoa

Foraminifera of the species Heterostegina depressa contain diatoms as symbionts. © Rosa Grafl Foraminifera - single-celled organisms that live predominantly in the sea -...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Female chimpanzees don’t like humans so much

While males are not afraid of anything, female chimpanzees prefer to stay far away from humans. People are basically everywhere these days. Also...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Insects are not only very healthy for humans, but also for plants

Insect leftovers after we have feasted on them can serve very well as a nutrient source and soil improver for plants. So...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Bacterial genes drove evolution of land plants

The green alga Micrasterias is closely related to land plants. © tonaquatic/ iStock Hundreds of genes in today's plants originally come from bacteria, fungi...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

The recent eruption of the Tonga volcano is also not going to save our climate

The cooling effect of the concentration of sulfur dioxide pumped into the air by the volcano is 'disappointing'. In early January, a submarine volcano...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Photo worth seeing: Metamaterial MRI Cap

This construction may look like a child's toy or a new type of bicycle helmet. In fact, however, it helps to make MRI...
Elijah Burt -
Earth & Climate

Australian bushfires may also have depleted the ozone layer

It is bad news, because it is expected that such large wildfires - due to climate change - will occur much more often...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Two new relatives for T. rex?

Tyrannosaurus rex (left) attacking a triceratops. © Gregory S Paul, 2022 The Tyrannosaurus rex may not have been the only representative of its genus....
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

It’s not up to you: killing a mosquito is just really damn difficult

Just over 10,000 times, scientists armed with a mechanical swatter and high-speed cameras tried to swat mosquitoes out of the air. And...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

IPCC report: ‘Climate change threatens people and planet’

A new report from the IPCC, the UN's climate panel, urges humanity to act. This autumn, the sixth climate report of the Intergovernmental Panel...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

IPCC: Climate impacts affect billions of people

Climate impacts affect people and nature equally. © leolintang/iStock The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the second part of its current status...
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