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Animals

Ximena Velez-Liendo is saving Andean bears with honey

By training beekeepers, biologist Ximena Velez-Liendo is helping rural agricultural communities of southern Bolivia coexist with Andean bears.

Climate

Three reasons why the ocean’s record-breaking hot streak is devastating

Ocean warming enhances hurricane activity, bleaches coral reefs and melts Antarctic sea ice. That warming has been off the charts for the past year.

Archaeology

These Stone Age humans were more gatherer than hunter

Though not completely vegetarian, the Iberomaurusian hunter-gatherers from North Africa relied heavily on plants such as acorns, pistachios and oats.

Humans

Rain Bosworth studies how deaf children experience the world

Deaf experimental psychologist Rain Bosworth has found that babies are primed to learn sign language just like spoken language.

Space

‘Humanity’s spacecraft’ Voyager 1 is back online and still exploring

After five months of glitching, the venerable space probe contacted Earth and is continuing its interstellar mission billions of kilometers away.

Health & Medicine

Irregular bone marrow cells may increase heart disease risk

Over time, bone marrow stem cells develop key genetic errors and pass them on to immune cells. This may increase the risk of developing heart disease.

Health & Medicine

Traces of bird flu are showing up in cow milk. Here’s what to know

We asked the experts: Should people be worried? Pasteurization and the H5N1 virus’s route to infection suggests risks to people remains low.

Health & Medicine

Malaria parasites can evade rapid tests, threatening eradication goals

Genetic mutations are making Plasmodium falciparum, parasites that cause malaria, invisible to rapid tests. New, more sensitive tests could help.

Ecosystems

Noise pollution can harm birds even before they hatch

Exposing zebra finch eggs and hatchlings to traffic sounds had lifelong health impacts, raising concerns about increased anthropogenic noise.

Neuroscience

Rat cells grew in mice brains, and helped sniff out cookies

When implanted into mouse embryos, stem cells from rats grew into forebrains and structures that handle smells.

Physics

Newfound ‘altermagnets’ shatter the magnetic status quo 

The newly discovered type of magnetic material could improve existing tech, including making better and faster hard drives.

Health & Medicine

Pelvic exams at hospitals require written consent, new U.S. guidelines say 

Hospitals must now get written consent to perform pelvic, breast, prostate and rectal exams on sedated patients or risk losing federal funding.