Click Here to Read: The Elephantine Memories of Food-Caching Birds: Some animals can remember where they’ve buried hundreds of thousands of seeds. Why can’t we remember where we’ve put our eyeglasses? By Matthew Hutson in The New Yorker on December 29, 2024.
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Click Here to Read: Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss: Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up thre by By Jonathan O’Callaghan in the New York Times on January. 8, 2025.
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Click Here to Read: Rare footprints suggest two of our prehistoric ancestors may have met. The footprint aranthropus boisei – forensic facial reconstructions are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether their interactions shaped human evolution By Leo Sands in The Washington Post on November 28, 2024.
Paranthropus boisei – forensic facial reconstruction. Image: Draw made by Cicero Moraes and 3D scanning of the skull by Dr. Moacir Elias Santos. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read or Listen to: How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World. A gigantic, weather-defining current system could be headed to collapse. Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen had a simple yet controversial question: How much time might we have left to save it? by Sandra Upson on the Wired Website.
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