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On an overcast morning, several miles off Sardinia’s east coast, four men jump into a net where 49 giant Atlantic bluefin tuna are fighting for their lives. For 30 minutes, the men struggle in a frenzy of nets, tails, fins and sleek silvery bodies before finally securing a metal hook through the gills of …
More than one in five migratory species officially deemed in need of international protection are now in danger of extinction. That’s according to the most comprehensive report of their populations yet, released as a United Nations wildlife conservation conference kicks off this week in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Human activity is pushing these species to the …
Scavenging amphipods from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Credit: C. Havermans In the dark and cold of the months-long polar night, food resources are limited. Some groups of marine organisms in the polar regions overcome this challenge by going into a metabolic resting state in winter, surviving on reserves accumulated during the short growth season. But others, …
Inside the MAPLE power experiment Alex Ayling et al. The first experiment to transmit power to Earth from space could lead to a space-based solar power station within 10 years, according to one of the researchers involved. Such a station would benefit from greater exposure to the sun, due to the lack of clouds …
Chimpanzees enjoy teasing each other apple2499/Shutterstock Bonobos, orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees all poke, tickle and even steal from their peers as a form of playful teasing. Understanding these apes’ mischievous behaviour could help biologists work out the origins of humans’ sense of humour. Previous studies have found that chimpanzees may engage in agonistic teasing, …
Sports psychology research has increased dramatically in the last decade or so. Knowable Magazine Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to punt or pass, or a basketball team’s debate over …
Enlarge / Graphical reconstruction of a Stone Age wall as it may been used: as a hunting structure in a glacial landscape. Michał Grabowski In 2021, Jacob Geersen, a geophysicist with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in the German port town of Warnemünde, took his students on a training exercise along the …
Explore Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuo nnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! grumbles the thunder in Finnegans Wake, and there is, as far as I know, no longer example in English of onomatopoeia, or echo-mimesis, in which the sound of a word is intended to recreate the phenomenon to which it refers. The first of 10 100-letter thunder-words in James Joyce’s novel, it …
Even before most human babies can say “mama,” they can tease. This behavior is important, because playful teasing is a critical part of human interaction and development. A baby must have enough social intelligence and be able to recognize and appreciate that their actions can mess with another person’s expectation of what’s coming next. …
Melcher, A., Harrington, K. & Vile, R. Oncolytic virotherapy as immunotherapy. Science 374, 1325–1326 (2021). Article ADS CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Twumasi-Boateng, K., Pettigrew, J. L., Kwok, Y. Y. E., Bell, J. C. & Nelson, B. H. Oncolytic viruses as engineering platforms for combination immunotherapy. Nat. Rev. Cancer 18, 419–432 (2018). Article …