South Africa’s frogs and reptiles get their own list of names in local languages
Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is…
Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal
It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost…
From cats and dogs to penguins and llamas, treating animals with acupuncture has become mainstream in veterinary medicine
A perentie lizard in Dallas, an African penguin in Boston and an Oberhasli goat in…
Did ‘induced atmospheric vibration’ cause blackouts in Europe? An electrical engineer explains the phenomenon
The lights are mostly back on in Spain, Portugal and southern France after a widespread…
Why are political parties allowed to send spam texts? And how can we make them stop?
Another election, another wave of unsolicited political texts. Over this campaign, our digital mailboxes have…
Americans think AI will have a bad effect on news, journalists
Artificial intelligence is already affecting the way news is produced and received in the United…
Cancer research in the US is world class because of its broad base of funding − with the government pulling out, its future is uncertain
Cancer research in the U.S. doesn’t rely on a single institution or funding stream −…
Online shopping: more people buying print than e-books – News articles
When shopping online in 2024, print remained the preferred format for readers, with 14.7% of…
What political ads are Australians seeing online? Astroturfing, fake grassroots groups, and outright falsehoods
In the lead-up to the 2025 Australian federal election, political advertising is seemingly everywhere. We’ve…
Investigators are increasingly using technology in conflict-related sexual assault cases
In the last two weeks of February, humanitarian agencies reported 895 cases of conflict-related rape…