Claims that environmental protections are obstacles to the space industry do not match evidence of what happens around ...

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A lmost all human languages follow Zipf's law of abbreviation – and it turns out, so do bird songs. This strange observation ...

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Every year, millions of pieces of space rock enter Earth’s atmosphere but burn up before they can reach the ground. It is ...

How do you get a paper retracted? Hint: it doesn’t usually start with a strongly worded opinion piece from a senior political ...

P olar bears have become something of an icon for the Arctic. The world’s largest land predators, they are big, they are ...

Nick Royal’s image of a male blue ground beetle ( Carabus intricatus) took the Best in Category for 'Research in Action'.

A whale fall is when a whale carcass sinks to the bottom of the ocean and comes to rest on the seafloor, supporting a whole ...

A species’ common name can often be misleading. Koala bears aren’t bears, starfish aren’t fish, and the mountain chicken is ...

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A submarine volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US is set to blow in 2025. Seamounts like this are providing scientists with the perfect opportunity to study the evolution of early ...