A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents.This article was […]
Despite the Los Angeles Unified School District’s standardized screening system for vetting teachers, some school principals still rely on their own tactics to recruit applicants, even when they believe the system is beneficial, a new […]
When predators strike, fish need to decide fast: dive or stay? It’s a life-or-death choice, and getting it wrong, whether by overreacting to harmless disturbances or missing a real threat, can be costly.This article was […]
Fireflies are lighting up summer evenings across the U.S. Northeast, putting on dazzling shows in backyards and city parks.This article was originally published on this website.
An interdisciplinary research team has engineered a new class of organic photoelectrochemical transistors (OPECTs). These tiny devices can convert light into electrical signals and mimic the behavior of synapses in the brain. The research results […]
In a study published today in Scientific Reports, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung by humans to […]
Microclimates—as opposed to large-scale regional or even global scale macroclimate models—may hold the key to offsetting the negative impacts of extreme weather events on already vulnerable insect populations.This article was originally published on this website.
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, which comes into force on August 1, 2025, means universities in England now have a new duty to uphold “robust” strategies to ensure freedom of speech on campus.This […]
Zikia, a 12th grader in Philadelphia, was stressing over where she would attend college in the fall. Her charter school’s college decision ceremony was the next day, and she was torn between her two top […]
Even a toddler knows that plants need water. It’s perhaps the first thing we learn about these green life-forms. But how plants budget this resource varies considerably. The kapok trees of the Amazon have adopted […]
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