Is plant communication a real thing?
How plants communicate has long been a matter of debate. In fact, it was initially very controversial: books like The Secret Life of Plants (1973) seemed to undermine the credibility…
Water in the West: Before and after satellite images reveal a year of snow boom – but…
As the animations below dramatically illustrate, this was indeed a boom year for snow in the western United States. This is especially true for water-depleted California, as well as the…
Researchers discover species of tequila worm
For Akito Kawahara and his colleagues, some pictures of soft were well deserved after a long day of butterfly catching in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula four years ago. But just because…
5 of the strangest ideas to fight climate change
5 of the strangest ideas to fight climate change When it comes to fighting climate change, the more ideas, the better. While these creative decisions may seem rushed at first,…
What does it take for a volcano to affect Earth’s climate?
Whenever images of a giant ash plume appear in the news, one of the first questions that arrives in my inbox is whether this eruption will affect Earth’s climate. It…
Scientists study the secrets of 2,500-year-old mummified animals
Scientists study the secrets of 2,500-year-old mummified animals ,For early archaeologists, the only way to peer into an ancient coffin or container was to take the artifact apart. Actually it…
How Italy’s ChatGPT ban revealed that programmers already rely on it
On April 1, the Italian government banned ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence system that generates human text and computer code. ChatGPT is trained on vast amounts of data scraped from the…
A new blue hole in the ocean stretches almost to the Eiffel Tower
With the help of a local fisherman identified as Jesus Artemio Put Villa, scientists discovered the second deepest blue hole in the world in an unlikely place – the shallow…
Can elephants learn by observing and imitating others?
Elephants love to eat bananas and enjoy whole ones whenever they can. But Pang Fa, a 36-year-old Asian elephant who lives at the Berlin Zoo, is a little more precious:…
Why cave dwellers enjoy isolation
Many things go wrong when one spends months alone in a dark cave. Time freezes and the body’s rhythms get confused. Sleep is reduced to a few hours a night…