Science

Researchers say modelling shows the strategies currently in place to reduce plastic waste, such as bans on certain products and continuous clean-up of litter, are ‘not enough to keep plastic pollution in check’.

Hyraxes, which live in Africa and the Middle East, punctuate their songs with snorts. And the snorts appear to reflect the animals’ emotional state. Jason G. Goldman reports. 

One day about 120,000 years ago, a few humans wandered along the shore of an ancient lake in what is now the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia. They may have paused for a drink of fresh water or to track herds of elephants, wild asses, and camels that were trampling […]

But you should still get a flu shot.

In 1991, scientists lowered large subwoofers into the water at Heard Island, a snowcapped volcanic island in the Indian Ocean. The speakers emitted low-frequency sounds that, like whale song, rumbled across entire oceans. Picked up by receivers off the coasts of California and Bermuda, the signals contained a crucial piece […]

Staff Writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how jail and prison populations in the United States have dropped in the face of coronavirus and what kinds of scientific questions about public health and criminal justice are arising as a result.

Scientists believe the tip of pterosaur’s beak had clusters of nerves, which it used to find prey like ‘a dabbling duck probing around shallow water’.

The Moderna vaccine is among the frontrunners to potentially be approved.