In a new episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we talk about the variants that are likely to be around this winter and how boosters help even if you’ve already…
New recordings of sounds made by reptiles, amphibians and fish suggest that vocal communication has a common evolutionary origin in vertebrates Life 25 October 2022 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre Juvenile ornate…
A ballistics analysis has raised new questions about the role of the US Army in the 1918 Porvenir massacre, where Texas Rangers killed 15 unarmed Mexican boys and men Humans 25 October 2022…
After removing images generated by artificial intelligence models from its archives last month, Shutterstock is now going to sell ones created exclusively by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 AI Technology 25 October…
Five new cases of jaundice have been associated with the regular consumption of turmeric supplements and teas, with all cases recovering after treatment Health 25 October 2022 By Alice Klein…
In some circles, it’s known as climate reparations. In others, payments for “loss and damage.” Whatever the term, there are growing calls for a new process that would pay developing…
Most people don’t think of turtles as being exceptionally chatty—or even making sounds at all. But research published today in Nature Communications reveals that at least 50 turtle species vocalize—and…
When researchers at Boston University (BU) in Massachusetts inserted a gene from the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 into a strain of the virus from the beginning of the pandemic, they…
One of the more poetic aspects of the universe is that frighteningly powerful and raging forces can sculpt objects of graceful symmetry and beauty. And, as an added bonus, such…
The 19th century transition to coal in Britain was thought to be driven by a lack of sites for water wheels but there were plenty of spots left – instead,…