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From Science Magazine. In 2025, renewables helped bring the growth of greenhouse emissions to a virtual standstill in China and put a global carbon peak within reach. Tim Appenzeller, Science’s News Editor, and Li Shuo, director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute, explain. #ScienceTok #STEMTok Read more: https://scim.ag/4aCV0fJ CREDITS: (FOOTAGE)…
From Science Magazine. A 2023 study revealed cats have nearly 300 facial expressions—which may be due to their co-evolution with humans. Read more: https://scim.ag/44c7Hdv FOOTAGE CREDIT: LAUREN SCOTT #Cats #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. The seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy is Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Read more: https://scim.ag/4aCV0fJ FOOTAGE CREDIT: STRINGERSHUB/POND5; BLACKBOXGUILD/POND5 #RenewableEnergy #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. It was the Pompeii of the Cambrian. About 515 million years ago, a volcanic eruption blanketed shallow waters in what are today the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. The ash entombed the invertebrates living in the soft mud of the ocean floor, and within hours reacted with chemicals in seawater and hardened…
From Science Magazine. Archaeologists find evidence that a wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture. Read more: https://scim.ag/4p6y1NC CREDITS: (IMAGES) ANDREW CURRY; VRÁBLE EXCAVATION TEAM; GDKE RHINELAND-PALATINATE/FABIAN HAACK; UWE ANSPACH/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES; (GRAPHICS) V. PENNEY/SCIENCE; PATRICK J. LYNCH; (FOOTAGE) ANDREW CURRY; VRÁBLE EXCAVATION TEAM; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE…
From Science Magazine. If the promise of a tasty meal makes you want to jump for joy, you may relate to the loggerhead turtle. These animals have an uncontrollable urge to dance whenever they anticipate food—a trait scientists behind a study in Nature used to test whether the reptiles can memorize their favorite feeding sites…
From Science Magazine. For decades, rising carbon emissions have accelerated climate change, but this year marked a critical turning point that could finally reverse that trend. Renewable energy has now graduated beyond the need for subsidies and incentives, emerging as a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels in many countries. News Editor Tim Appenzeller and policy…
From Science Magazine. A 2023 study revealed cats have nearly 300 facial expressions—which may be due to their co-evolution with humans. Read more: https://scim.ag/44c7Hdv FOOTAGE CREDIT: LAUREN SCOTT #Cats #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. How do electrical impulses traveling among a tangle of neurons drive complex behaviors? Researchers seeking the answer have reconstructed the complete wiring diagram, or connectome, of the fruit fly’s adult brain—a feat akin to mapping all the buildings, avenues, and streets in a complex city. The comprehensive map will advance…
From Science Magazine. A new video has captured a lone female wolf pulling crab traps out of the water, but does it count as tool use? Read more: https://scim.ag/4oYrTXP CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) KYLE ARTELLE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Wolves #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. Every few minutes, a dragonfly dives into water and takes off again, turning several forward somersaults as it ascends, a team of biomechanists reported earlier this year at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The purpose of the behavior? The quick dip cools the insect down, and…
From Science Magazine. When people work together, they can achieve great things. But if they can’t talk, they’re not necessarily smarter than ants, at least according to a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more: https://scim.ag/3MjT15Z FOOTAGE CREDIT: DREYER ET AL./PNAS #Ants #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. In 2021, researchers analyzed the anatomy and behavior of a tiny American parrot called a parrotlet and peregrine falcons, two species known for their expert footwork. They then designed SNAG (the Stereotyped Nature-Inspired Aerial Grasper)—a pair of jointed legs attached to feet with jointed talons that automatically close around any object they…
From Science Magazine. Tropical forests already cover some of the hottest parts of our planet, and these areas are only expected to get warmer. We know from temperate forests that heat can damage critical processes of individual trees and threaten landscape-scale survival, but how do plants already adapted to high temperatures respond? Staff writer Erik…
From Science Magazine. This splash-resistant cup borrows properties from nature to minimize spilling and sloshing. Read more: https://scim.ag/4rHfji8 CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) MA ET AL./SCIENCE ADVANCES; MARI1408/POND5; (SCRIPT) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Engineering #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. In 1935, French veterinarians observed a rabbit with a peculiar gait. Sometimes, when walking or running, the sauteur d’Alfort rabbit would lift its back legs over its head, scrambling along the ground on its forelimbs like a circus performer. In 2021, scientists pinned down the genetic mutation that likely causes this breed…
From Science Magazine. An early interest in reptile feeding behavior led evolutionary biologist Kurt Schwenk to study the tongues of lizards. Like Charles Darwin’s finches, the various forms and functions of #lizard tongues help piece together the story of how the diversity of reptiles and amphibians evolved. Read more: https://scim.ag/446DrRh CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) KURT SCHWENK; (VIDEO…
From Science Magazine. African penguins, as well as members of two closely related species, sport individually unique patterns of black dots on their white chest feathers. In a study published in Animal Behaviour, researchers have discovered the birds use these dots like name tags to help identify their mates, perhaps to recognize them amid throngs…
From Science Magazine. Scientists capture a unique—and gruesome—example of matricide in the animal kingdom. Read more: https://scim.ag/48dG2ew CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) TAKASUKA ET AL./CURRENT BIOLOGY; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) K. MCLEAN/SCIENCE #Ants #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. Traditional cooling devices like air conditioners rely on refrigerants that can be harmful to humans and the environment. Materials scientist Ichiro Takeuchi and his research group have developed a cooling device free of typical toxic refrigerants, instead relying on a physical property of certain #metal alloys. These alloys produce heat when strained…
From Science Magazine. Shipworms have long been a menace to humankind, sinking ships, undermining piers, and even eating their way through Dutch dikes in the mid-1700s. But in 2019, researchers found the first shipworm that eschewed wood for a very different diet: rock. Researchers first spotted the species (Lithoredo abatanica) in 2006 in thumb-size burrows…
From Science Magazine. A new, long-lasting flu preventative might be more effective at protecting from infection than a seasonal flu vaccine. Read more: https://scim.ag/3KgwINH CREDITS: (ILLUSTRATIONS) C. BICKEL/SCIENCE; CHRIS BURNS; PDB-10 (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE #Health #Science #ScienceShorts
From Science Magazine. For decades, scientists assumed honey bees only lapped up nectar, rapidly dipping their tongues in and out. In 2020, researchers discovered that in some cases, the bees could also use their tongues to suck—but it wasn’t clear when or why they employed one strategy over the other in nature. To find out,…
From Science Magazine. In a Southern California aquarium, a young leopard shark rushes headfirst toward a plastic squid toy and then—as if in a game of chicken—makes a last-minute dash to the left, barely clearing the dangling rubber tentacles. Meanwhile, his tankmate, a California skate, grabs an orange ring with her mouth, rolling the textured…
From Science Magazine. Blowing bubbles isn’t just fun and games for the water anole (Anolis aquaticus), a small, semiaquatic species of anole lizard that’s native to Costa Rica and Panama. In 2024, researchers reported in Biology Letters that the lizards create bubbles underwater and use them like miniature scuba tanks when fleeing predators above the…
From Science Magazine. UC Berkeley biologist Víctor Ortega Jiménez studies the fan structures that ripple bugs use to dance on water. The fans’ ability to passively expand when submerged and contract when removed from the water inspired collaborators at Ajou University to design a similar water striding robot. Read more: https://scim.ag/4nP2nDN CREDITS: (FOOTAGE) CHRIS SCHODT…