It’s not just you. Frogs also get overwhelmed when confronted with too many options — and sometimes, they make bad decisions. Female Cope’s gray tree frogs (Hyla chrysoscelis) prefer males…
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“We’ve gone backwards” – new plastics treaty text dims hopes for production curbs
A new draft text to revive deadlocked UN plastics treaty talks does not include specific measures on managing runaway plastic production, a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, drawing criticism…
Executive order on vaccines bypasses an evidence-based process that has kept kids safe
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 10, 2026, calling for the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to be given as three separate shots at three separate…
For refugees to the US, discrimination can make healthcare harder to get
Newly arrived refugees resettling in the United States face ending one long journey and embarking on another as they begin their new life here. But even after years of displacement,…
AI Rules to Protect Kids Risk Repeating Social Media Mistakes
Policymakers risk repeating mistakes they made trying to govern social media in their rush to protect kids from potential harms posed by AI chatbots, according to a new report by…
Perseid meteor shower peaks under perfect skies Aug 12-13 — here’s what to expect
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most prolific and impressive meteor showers of the year, peaks tonight! Widely regarded as one of the best meteor showers of the year,…
Libin Zhou | Nutrient enrichment destabilizes aquatic food webs through synchronization within and across trophic levels – Functional Ecologists
In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Libin Zhou – an Associate Professor at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology – discusses the paper “Nutrient enrichment destabilizes aquatic…
Study of Brain Immune Cells Reveals New Clues to Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
Summary: Researchers have mapped over 830,000 brain immune cells, discovering a protective subtype of microglia that expands as Alzheimer’s disease progresses. Driven by the TREM2 molecular pathway, these cells actively…
Flesh-eating bacteria are devouring limbs in warming waters worldwide − here’s how to protect yourself
Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people in the U.S. and beyond. Vibrio vulnificus,…
South Africa’s offshore oil push meets grassroots resistance in court
Layers of red dust coat South Africa’s Saldanha Bay, a legacy of the one billion-plus tonnes of iron ore exported from what was once a quiet coastal fishing town in…
