2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (602+ words) Time to overturn everything climate scientists believed they knew: temperate species are not less vulnerable to climate change but more. It does not look good. “The world has changed since 2016,” says John Wiens, the senior author of a new study…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (592+ words) The study’s findings suggest that spontaneous, goal-directed problem-solving is not exclusive to large-brained vertebrates, but can also emerge in animals with vastly smaller brains. A century ago, a psychologist named Wolfgang Köhler proved that chimpanzees could solve complex problems. He…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (574+ words) The discovery reveals that sea cucumber tissue explants can heal, reorganize, and survive independently in natural seawater for years. In Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel, Frankenstein’s monster is stitched together from dead tissue and shocked into a chaotic, artificial imitation…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (579+ words) The strategy used by the horseshoe bats could advance human technology. A new study has shown how Japanese horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus nippon) handle noisy environments at night. For a flying bat, the night is not quiet. It is a blinding,…...

4+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (467+ words) New autonomous robot maps coral reef biodiversity hotspots using combined sound and vision sensing in real time. Scientists have developed an autonomous underwater robot that can locate and map biodiversity hotspots on coral reefs by combining sound and vision in…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (452+ words) Researchers used dental microwear analysis to prove that “Good Mother” dinosaurs actively nurtured their offspring 75 million years ago. A groundbreaking study from Ohio State University has provided the earliest direct evidence that adult Maiasaura peeblesorums fed their young better food,…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (535+ words) The study found that dolphins are master sculptors of the sea, carving massive, invisible “vortex rings” out of the ocean to propel themselves forward with precision. Researchers from Osaka University have used supercomputer simulations to solve the mystery of how…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (392+ words) New research confirms honeybees can count small quantities and understand the concept of zero, revealing numerical cognition in an insect brain. Honeybees can count up to 4 and recognize zero as a quantity lower than one, according to a body of…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (112+ words) Photos: Endangered orangutan seen crossing road using man-made bridge in a first Interesting Engineering The bridge, built in 2024, reconnects forest areas split by the Lagan-Pagindar road and offers hope for a fragile ape population. A young Sumatran orangutan has been…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (589+ words) Access expert insights, exclusive content, and a deeper dive into engineering and innovation all with fewer ads or a completely ad-free experience. Researchers at Boston University have discovered a surprising mechanism in the brains of zebra finches that may explain…...