Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally

It’s not hard to follow the money

A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

Harvard study finds traffic fatalities increase by 15% on release dates compared with similar days either side The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans, but such events have also been linked to a more sombre phenomenon: an increase in fatal car crashes. The team behind a new study say it sheds light on the impact of distracted driving. “You can’t randomise people into using their phones, and drivers rarely volunteer what they were doing in the seconds before a crash,” said Dr Vishal Patel, first author of the study based at Harvard Medical School. Continue reading...

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.

The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.

After years of decline, butterfly populations are rising—for now.

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

This ACLU research report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, documents widespread civil rights violations carried out by immigration agents during the first year of President Trump’s second term. The repor...

Skeleton judged to be one of the largest and most complete ever unearthed was excavated on a ranch in South Dakota

Can civilization survive the postliterate era?

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Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect, to provide only his most widely agreed-upon list of occupations.

Breaking news from Naples reveals two new ancient books not seen in 2,000 years

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

A federal judge ordered the ​Trump administration on ‌Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on ​topics like slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide "that ​do not align with its preferred narrative."

In 2025, Harvard once again began asking applicants to submit an SAT or ACT score. This was a reversal of the no-test-necessary policy that it and quite a few other American colleges and universities ...

They didn't give their lives for an autocracy

Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change Even in his final months, he counted the days until the cherry blossoms. Prof Yasuyuki Aono of Osaka Metropolitan University spent his career gathering data on the spring flowering dates of cherry trees in Japan in what is one of the world’s longest climate records tracking a seasonal occurrence. Using sources dating as far back as the 9th century, he revealed that cherry tree flowerings have occurred progressively earlier in recent decades – a now famous marker of climate change. Continue reading...