scientists
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Scientists Capture Rare Footage of Mother Skink Fighting a Deadly Brown Snake to Protect Her Babies
Unlike many mammals and birds, most reptiles show little sign of being caring parents. But our new research shows one lizard species may be more doting parents than we thought – the adults risking their own safety to protect their babies. We used cameras in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales to study the…
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This Was The Decade Climate Scientists Stopped Being Polite
Scientific warnings about the risks of unchecked global warming have reached a crescendo in the past couple of years, with urgent messages from researchers on social media, in congressional testimony, and even directly in the text of research papers.
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Mad Scientists Grow Fish On Land
There are large tanks of water involved here too so sorry about that misleading headline, but there is some truth in it as a Scottish fish farm operated by Great British Prawns is about to unleash one million whiteleg shrimp on the UK market – and they’ve all been grown in tanks. On land. In…
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How Can Scientists Cool The Earth?
Ideas to combat climate change by hacking Earth’s climate to make it cooler – “geoengineering” – have been around for decades. From putting physical barriers in the outer atmosphere to reflect the sun, to using chemicals such as sulphur injected into the atmosphere to mimic the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions – what are the…