The term âgameyâ often feels infuriatingly imprecise. It is somehow both…
News Source: https://www.popsci.com/health/what-is-gamey-meat/
Meet Punch, one of 2026âs unlikeliest heroes. The baby Japanese macaque won hearts (and the internet) after he was rejected by his fellow monkeys and bonded with an orangutan plushie.
The young monkey is a resident at Ichikawa City Zoological…
News Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/a-baby-macaque-has-gone-viral-with-his-plushie-what-punch-tells-us-about-social-hierarchies-48729
NEW YORK (AP) â Horses whinny to find new friends, greet old ones, and celebrate happy moments like feeding time.
How exactly horses produce that distinctive sound â also called a neigh â has long eluded scientists.
The whinny is an…
News Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-horses-whinny-is-a-unique-mix-of-two-sounds-study-finds
Thousands of marks carved into Paleolithic artifacts suggest that early modern humans were using structured symbols to communicate as far back as 40,000 years ago, a detailed analysis has found.
The marks, made by people of the Aurignacian…
News Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/these-40000-year-old-marks-may-be-a-precursor-to-writing
The first major astronomical event visible in 2026 is a total lunar eclipse, or âblood moon.â This phenomenon is highly prized by stargazers because the entire lunar disk takes on a reddish color for a few moments.
The total lunar eclipse will…
News Source: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-view-the-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-on-march-3/
A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen before on this kind of dinosaur.
Paleontologists have named it Spinosaurus mirabilis, meaning ‘wonderful spine lizard’….
News Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/astonishing-spinosaur-unearthed-in-the-sahara-is-unlike-any-seen-before
For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct âhell pigsâ and âwolves with hoovesâ
News Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-giant-carnivore-ran-on-hooves-scientists-are-investigating-its-massive-skull-and-crushing-teeth-to-decipher-the-beasts-true-nature-180988212/
The worldâs largest colony of northern gannets was decimated by bird flu in 2022. Now, as their numbers climb again, researchers are collecting data to understand the virusâ lasting effects
News Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/after-a-devastating-bird-flu-outbreak-scotlands-seabirds-are-slowly-recoveringand-so-are-the-scientists-who-witnessed-their-decline-180988211/
There are lots of visual illusions: an old woman who turns into a young girl, a drawing thatâs either a duck or a rabbit depending on how you look at it, and, need I mention the blue and black, or white and gold dress?
Visual illusions are fun,…
News Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/optical-illusions-can-trick-artificial-intelligence-just-like-they-fool-us-48691
