This week, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced the agency will be developing the “first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft” ahead of a planned 2028 launch to Mars. The ambition of the…
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Haldane Prize 2025 | James Mouton: Behavioural co-option of plant secondary compounds by a cavity-nesting bird is an adaptation against competition and predation – Functional Ecologists
2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: James Mouton discusses the paper “Behavioural co-option of plant secondary compounds by a cavity-nesting bird is an adaptation against competition and predation“, which has been shortlisted…
How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children
Within 48 hours, the legal landscape governing social media and children shifted in ways that will take years to fully understand and verify. On March 24, 2026, a Santa Fe…
Chechen cemetery contains burials with ornate bronze ornaments
Excavations in Chechnya have uncovered the burial of a woman adorned with numerous bronze ornaments and jewellery. The discovery was made during rescue excavations by the Institute of Archaeology of…
Teen’s Internal Clock Controls Their Cravings
Summary: A new study reveals that sleep timing—not just the number of hours slept—is a primary driver of how teenagers eat and move. Researchers followed 373 adolescents and found that…
Haldane Prize 2025 | Nicole Walasek: The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data – Functional Ecologists
2025 HALDANE PRIZE SHORTLIST: Nicole Walasek discusses her paper “The evolution of sensitive periods beyond early ontogeny: Bridging theory and data“, which has been shortlisted for Functional Ecology’s 2025 Haldane Prize…
Watch the first video of a sperm whale birth captured by scientists
In a sperm whale birth recorded in more intimate detail than ever before, local whales huddled around the mother and lifted the calf to the surface.
Modern apes may have actually evolved in North Africa or the Middle East
Modern apes may have swung into existence in North Africa or the Middle East. New fossil findings — published March 26 in Science — unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early…
Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise as a way to counter Alzheimer’s disease- and age-related memory loss
Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of…
