Births among endangered right whales highest since 2015
North Atlantic right whales gave birth over the winter in greater numbers than scientists have seen since 2015, an encouraging sign for researchers who became alarmed three years ago when the critically endangered species produced no known offspring.....»»
A year after New Shepard’s accident, Blue Origin may return to flight next month
New Shepard is scheduled to launch in early October on its return-to-flight mission. Enlarge / On January 23, 2016, Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket again, after its previous flight in late 2015. This marked the first.....»»
CISOs need to be forceful to gain leverage in the boardroom
Over 70% of CISOs feel that the importance of information security is not recognised by senior leadership, according to BSS. The CISOs said their top four highest investment priorities in 2023 are change management (35%), information security resilie.....»»
iPhone 15 Pro: Good news for more RAM, no love for increased storage
Bad news for anyone planning on taking out a second home mortgage to buy a 2TB iPhone 15 Pro Max this week: 1TB appears to remain the highest capacity option yet again. more….....»»
Whales stop singing and rock lobsters lose their balance: How seismic surveys can harm marine life
Woodside Energy this week announced it would start seismic testing for its Scarborough gas project off Australia's west coast, before reversing the decision in the face of a legal challenge from Traditional Owners......»»
Apple Watch was shipped eight years ago on September 9, 2015
It feels like we've always had Apple Watches, but even on the eighth anniversary of its shipment, it's also still a product that feels new. Yet as well as all these years it's been on sale, you can trace rumors of Apple's work on it back at least ano.....»»
Australian 10-year feral cat plan: A step closer to protecting endangered wildlife
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has released a draft feral cat management plan......»»
Kurdish folklore collectors are helping to revitalize endangered languages, study shows
A new generation of young Kurdish folklore collectors is helping to revitalize endangered languages and create a living archive, a new study shows......»»
"Monstrous births" and the making of race in the nineteenth-century United States
From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, "monstrous births"—malformed or anomalous fetuses—were, to Western medicine, an object of superstition. In 19th-century America, they became instead an object of the "modern scientific study of monstrosi.....»»
Paleolimnological study attributes Tibetan Empire collapse in 9th century to climate change
The Tibetan Empire was the world's highest elevation empire, sitting over 4,000m above sea level, and thrived during 618 to 877 CE. Home to an estimated 10 million people, it spanned approximately 4.6 million km2 across East and Central Asia, extendi.....»»
Researchers searching for the habitat of a threatened fish first seen in Southeast Asian markets
A multi-national research team from Indonesia, Australia, and the United States, are hunting to find the home of one of the world's most endangered fish, the Clown Wedgefish, a fish so elusive that it has only ever been recorded at fish markets......»»
Nvidia and Lucid CEOs highest paid on "22 list
Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson, who ranked second on the list, made 11 times more than No. 3 Mary Barra of GM......»»
"I almost lost my will to live": Preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused
China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men—around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China's one-child policy, which ended in 2015......»»
Pacific Ocean global sea surface temperatures reach record levels in 2023
In March and April 2023, some Earth scientists began to point out that average sea surface temperatures had surpassed the highest levels seen in a key data record maintained by NOAA. Months later, they remain at record levels, with global sea surface.....»»
Mutation rates in whales found to be much higher than previously reported
An international team of marine scientists, led by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and the Center for Coastal Studies in the U.S., has studied the DNA of family groups from four different whale species to estimate their mutation rates......»»
This Brad Pitt movie is Netflix’s most popular drama now. Here’s why you should watch it
This 2015 drama with Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt is one of Netflix's most popular movies right now. Find out what it is and why you should watch it......»»
Logging is growing in a Nigerian forest home to endangered elephants. Rangers blame lax enforcement
Roaring chainsaws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they were tied in place with wire......»»
Research suggests monarch butterflies may be in less danger than we think
The migratory monarch butterfly might not be as endangered as previously thought, according to a new study published in Current Biology......»»
Protecting endangered languages feels right, but does it really help people?
Headlines abound with the plight of endangered minority languages around the world. Read a few of these and you'll see some common themes: the rising number of languages dying worldwide, the distressing isolation of individual last speakers, and the.....»»
Microplastics discovered in the body tissues of whales, dolphins and seals, sparking concerns for human health
Marine mammals—animals including whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, sea otters, dugongs and manatees—are threatened by an array of human activities. Species such as the North Atlantic right whale, Rice's whale and Vaquita porpoise have been push.....»»
Cape Cod strands more dolphins than anywhere else. Now they"re getting their own hospital
When members of the marine mammal team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare rush to a Cape Cod beach to help a stranded dolphin or porpoise, they have no choice but to treat the endangered animal on site and then immediately release it......»»