🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Here's the science of why you should spend more time in nature next year - and why watching rustling leaves and listening to birdsong are so supremely relaxing. newscientist.com/article/240895… New Scientist

A piece about winter birds and all the animals we've lost during my lifetime so far newscientist.com/article/241487… #biodiversity #birdwatching #nature New Scientist

In tomorrow's Wild Wild Life newsletter, I'm taking a look at an influential new book on #trophyhunting, plus the world's tiniest vertebrate and a new to science member of the primrose family. Sign up to receive it for free: newscientist.com/wildwildlife New Scientist

Look at this beaut newscientist.com/article/241832…

Is trophy hunting a good thing in conservation terms? That's never been clear to me, so this piece by Penny Sarchet was a really interesting read: newscientist.com/article/241849…

Heard my first chiffchaff of the year - that's it, I'm in summer mode now.

Did we evolve to find herbs' antimicrobial compounds delicious? newscientist.com/article/243611…

New snake just dropped. newscientist.com/article/243834…

This is amazing newscientist.com/article/243906…

In the name of rationality, scientists have often assumed that animals and young infants aren't conscious. Wouldn't assuming that they are have been a kinder null hypothesis? newscientist.com/article/244001…

"The relative proportion of people developing [dementia] within each age group is shrinking – a ray of light that is often obscured in the popular discourse." newscientist.com/article/mg2633…

This story has it all: 😱Results so suprising the researcher involved discounted them for *8 years* ☠️Wild experiments including poisoning samples ⚡️A shock discovery 😬 Company providing 💰 & getting more than they bargained for newscientist.com/article/244046…

V interesting from Grace Wade newscientist.com/article/244042…

"These nodules are being mined because there’s everything there that you need to make an electric car battery...What if they are acting as natural geobatteries, by themselves?” newscientist.com/article/244046…

It's "hard to be short of breath for three years and not experience depression" newscientist.com/article/244215…

Great piece by Graham Lawton last week on the popularity of climate action, and why it's so unwise to think declaring war on the environment is a vote winner. newscientist.com/article/mg2633…

It's time to give up on the Late Heavy Bombardment and realise that life on Earth began surprisingly early newscientist.com/article/244481…

AI-generated content is everywhere, but researchers have pulled together many tips and telltale errors that can help you spot a fake...for now. Great explainer from Jeremy Hsu newscientist.com/article/244547…

This is such an interesting listen on why adolescence is so formative and the formidable social dynamics at play newscientist.com/podcasts/cultu…

“Don’t be fooled by Hollywood movies where you can see the thing coming screaming through the sky and you’ve got time to run out the house, get the cat, jump in the car and drive somewhere. You don’t have the time to do that” newscientist.com/article/244639…