Meatier meals and more playtime might reduce cats’ toll on wildlife
Surprisingly simple measures might keep domestic cats from killing a lot of wildlife. Estimates vary, but it’s likely that billions of birds and mammals...
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Can privacy coexist with technology that reads and changes brain activity?
Gertrude the pig rooted around a straw-filled pen, oblivious to the cameras and onlookers — and the 1,024 electrodes eavesdropping on her brain signals....
Humans made a horn out of a conch shell about 18,000 years ago
Ancient Europeans made a horn out of a large seashell and blew musical notes out of it roughly 18,000 years ago, a new study...
A drop in CFC emissions puts the hole in the ozone layer back on track to closing
Good news for the ozone layer: After a recent spike in CFC-11 pollution, emissions of this ozone-destroying chemical are on the decline. Emissions of...
A reeking, parasitic plant lost its body and much of its genetic code
For most of their lives, plants in the Sapria genus are barely anything — thin ribbons of parasitic cells winding inside vines in Southeast...
‘Designer molecules’ could create tailor-made quantum devices
Quantum bits made from “designer molecules” are coming into fashion. By carefully tailoring the composition of molecules, researchers are creating chemical systems suited to...
Three things to know about the disastrous flood in India
A flash flood surged down a river in India’s Himalayan Uttarakhand state on February 7, killing at least 30 people and washing away two...
Fossil mimics may be more common in ancient rocks than actual fossils
When it comes to finding fossils of very ancient microbial life — whether on Earth or on other worlds, such as Mars — the...
‘Under a White Sky’ explores whether we must tinker with nature to save it
Under a White SkyElizabeth KolbertCrown, $28 In 1900, the city of Chicago completed a 45-kilometer-long canal that altered the hydrology of two-thirds of the...
The birth of a lightning bolt was caught on video
A new slow-motion video offers the best view yet of the split-second collision of electric currents that creates a flash of lightning. The video...
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