Tasmanian devils claw their way back from extinction
For decades a ghastly facial cancer has been decimating Tasmanian devils. Spreading from animal to animal when the stocky, raccoon-size marsupials bite each other, the transmissible cancer has killed up to 80% of the devils in Tasmania, their only home for millennia. Some researchers saw extinction as inevitable. Now, a […]
Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil
The field of psychology underwent a replication crisis and saw a sea change in scientific and publishing practices, could ecology be next? News Intern Cathleen O’Grady joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the launch of a new society for ecologists looking to make the field more rigorous.
New technique could uncover gravitational echoes of the Big Bang
Researchers can now sift through the astrophysical noise to see the conditions of the early Universe.
China launches gamma ray–hunting satellites to trace sources of gravitational waves
The China National Space Administration’s Chang’e-5 mission, set to return Moon rocks to Earth next week, has grabbed headlines around the world. But China’s other space agency, the science-focused National Space Science Center (NSSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is making news of its own: Just after 4 […]
Bees defeat ‘murder hornet’ relatives with poop
Using feces to defend their hives is a behavior that was previously unknown in bees.
Amount of human-made items on Earth will soon outweigh all living biomass
Research suggests that for each person alive today, mass equal to more than their bodyweight is produced by humans every week.
This is what a supernova sounds like, according to NASA
NASA’s new project turns up the volume on space’s most extreme phenomena.