Little Foot’s shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed
Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult...
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Wild donkeys and horses engineer water holes that help other species
Water drives the rhythms of desert life, but animals aren’t always helpless against the whims of weather. In the American southwest, wild donkeys and...
Lightning may be an important source of air-cleaning chemicals
Lightning could play an important role in flushing pollutants out of the atmosphere. Observations from a storm-chasing airplane reveal that lightning can forge lots...
Mantis shrimp start practicing their punches at just 9 days old
The fastest punches in the animal kingdom probably belong to mantis shrimp — and they may begin unleashing these attacks a little more than...
A clock’s accuracy may be tied to the entropy it creates
Today’s most advanced clocks keep time with an incredibly precise rhythm. But a new experiment suggests that clocks’ precision comes at a price: entropy....
Climate change may have changed the direction of the North Pole’s drift
A sudden zag in which way the North Pole’ was drifting in the 1990s probably stemmed in large part from glacial melt caused by...
The thickness of lead’s neutron ‘skin’ has been precisely measured
Some atomic nuclei are thin-skinned — they’re surrounded by a slim shell of neutrons. Physicists now know how thick that neutron skin is for...
COVID-19 can affect the brain. New clues hint at how
For more than a year now, scientists have been racing to understand how the mysterious new virus that causes COVID-19 damages not only our...
Stars made of antimatter could lurk in the Milky Way
Fourteen pinpricks of light on a gamma-ray map of the sky could fit the bill for antistars, stars made of antimatter, a new study...
This praying mantis inflates a strange pheromone gland to lure mates
Praying mantises — with their angular features, huge eyes and centaur posture — often seem a bit alien. But researchers have recently found one...
A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song 
FAO and the Global South: Advancing Agrifood Transformation through South-South and Triangular Cooperation 
DURBAN CONFERENCE, 25 YEARS ON – Paul Divakar Namala: “Solidarity and Resistance Work in the Long Run” 
Innocent-looking AI reasoning can make bad behavior harder to catch