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Christopher Ralling obituary

Emmy and Bafta-winning writer, producer and director of groundbreaking programmes about great explorers

The Guardian - UK

John Tyndall: how a lecture in Belfast 150 years ago supercharged the modern debate on consciousness

On 19 August 1874, the Irish physicist John Tyndall – now better known as the co-founder of climate science – spoke to 2,000 people for nearly two hours in Belfast’s Ulster Hall. What he said generated one of the most intense controversies about science and religion in the modern period.…

The Conversation

At its core, life is all about play − just look at the animal kingdom

At Cambridge University Library, along with all the books, maps and manuscripts, there’s a child’s drawing that curators have titled “The Battle of the Fruit and Vegetable Soldiers.”

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Living on Earth by Peter Godfrey-Smith review – animal magic

The conclusion of a trilogy that began with Other Minds provides an exquisite account of intelligence across species

The Guardian - UK

Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

The evolutionary expert discusses the triumphs and challenges of the groundbreaking research on Galápagos Islands finches she undertook with her husband, Peter

The Guardian - UK

How old are South African fossils like the Taung Child? New study offers an answer

One hundred years ago the discovery of a skull in South Africa’s North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand, who first described it. In 1924 Dart could not say…

The Conversation

‘Infectious enthusiasm’: Jonathan Yeo’s green portrait of David Attenborough unveiled

Painting of 98-year-old broadcaster, commissioned by Royal Society, goes on public display 2 July

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Mythbusting: does it really take longer to boil an egg at altitude?

Does it really take longer to boil an egg at altitude? What about to make a decent cup of tea or a lovely coffee? We’re here to provide the answer

Advnture

Best anthropology books, from Jane Goodall to John Green

The history of humanity, what separates between humans and animals, and everything in between

Evening Standard

Netflix Just Quietly Released the Most Ridiculous Sci-Fi Disaster Movie of the Year

One of the most proven disaster settings gets a surprisingly iconic setting in this Netflix original.

Inverse

“Today I Learned”: 50 Cool Things People Just Discovered (New Posts)

We’ve gathered another dose of interesting and novel “today I learned” facts to impress at dinner parties and dominate at trivia games. The post “Today I Learned”: 50 Cool Things People Just Discovered (New Posts) first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Biologists Still Haven’t Settled A 150-Year-Old Debate About Giraffe’s Necks

Scientists still cannot agree on what is the most important factor in the evolution of the giraffe’s neck.

Inverse

Celebrate wildlife of our "Queer Planet"

A new documentary explores how animal sexuality has evolved to be about much more than just reproduction

Salon

Female giraffes drove the evolution of long giraffe necks in order to feed on the most nutritious leaves, new research suggests

Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual you need food. To survive as a species you need sex.

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Specieswatch: how the common spotted orchid nurtures its young

Like a mother breastfeeding a baby, plants use underground web of fungi to feed seedlings that cannot survive on their own

The Conversation

DNA analysis reveals that there are more species of parasitoid wasps than anticipated

When Charles Darwin first encountered parasitoid wasps, he was horrified. In an 1860 letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he wrote: “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.”

International Business Times

In Darwin's Footsteps: Scientists Recreate Historic 1830s Expedition

Like Charles Darwin did in 1831, a group of scientists and environmentalists last year set sail from the English port of Plymouth, headed for the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador.

The Independent UK

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment

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‘Exceptional’: rare books of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m

The set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May

WEKU

Those weird quirks siblings have in common? Darwin had a theory

Siblings — especially twins — sometimes share the strangest traits, like throwing a ball with their head or picking up keys and crayons with their toes. Researchers want to know what's up with that.

The Hindu

Understanding of Earth's flowering plants blossoms in genome study

New research based on genome data for 9,506 species, as well as an examination of 200 fossils, provides the deepest understanding to date of the evolutionary history of flowering plants, called angiosperms

The Guardian - UK

‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations

Research that aims to explain why some people experience intense visual imagery could lead to a better understanding of creativity and some mental disorders

The Guardian - UK

‘The anti-pet of bourgeois life’: why the world needs big cat energy

Whether by striking workers, poets or Pussy Riot, our feline friends have long been used as a symbol of resistance – radical by nature, they refuse to be tamed

The Guardian - UK

‘Vital for looking after the soil’: fears as UK earthworm population declines

Keystone species has potentially enormous effects on above-ground wildlife and ecosystem functioning

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: $10m fines mooted for supermarkets; Israel withdraws from southern Gaza; fears over rooming house boom

Supermarkets report recommends mandatory code apply to all chains with annual revenues of more than $5bn, which includes Coles, Woolworths and Aldi

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