Category Science

Some turtles flap about when a magnetic field suggests they are about to be fed Goforth et al., Nature (2025) Baby loggerhead turtles “dance” when they are expecting food, a behaviour that researchers have used to investigate their navigation abilities.…

February 12, 2025 4 min read The Surprising Importance of This Adorable Sea Turtle Dance Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance when they recognize…

Male and female genitals offer distinct environments for microbes Artur Plawgo/Getty Images Sexual partners transfer their distinctive genital microbiome to each other during intercourse, a finding that could have implications for forensic investigations of sexual assault. Brendan Chapman at Murdoch…

February 12, 2025 3 min read The Latest on Bird Flu Strains and Sick Zoo Animals Scientists have reported a new strain of bird flu in Nevada dairy cattle. And viral spread in pet cats has fueled worries over increased…

Microscopic view of paracetamol crystals Henri Koskinen/Shutterstock Children whose mothers used paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, during pregnancy are more likely to develop ADHD than those whose mothers didn’t, suggests a small study. While far from conclusive, the finding lends…

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has one week to tell President Donald Trump whether the agency could abandon its authority to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act. His decision stands to cast EPA into a monumental fight…

A week after the inauguration, US senator Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a flurry of congressional subpoenas to 14 agencies, including the NIH and HHS. The senator said the continuing investigation was being conducted in order to “critique the process…

David Parker/Science Photo Library What is the difference between artificial intelligence and quantum computing? One is a sci-fi-sounding technology that has long promised to revolutionise our world, providing researchers can sort out a few technical wrinkles like the tendency to…

February 12, 2025 5 min read The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Seen Makes a Mediterranean Splash A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to date By Meghan Bartels…

California’s weather whiplash has been a problem dating back centuries, or more. Fire is a natural and necessary part of California’s diverse ecosystems, but the so-called “expanding bull’s-eye” of urban areas spreading into prime wildfire zones has complicated things. Before…