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.