How do babies perceive the world?
in MIT Tech Review
The challenges of tackling this question are so daunting that few have tried. But Heather Kosakowski, a PhD candidate at MIT, is determined to find answers.
Scouring the desert for a seabird
in Hakai Magazine
After seven years of searching, researchers found two nesting colonies of the mysterious white-vented storm-petrel hidden deep in the driest non-polar desert in the world.
The surprising reason scientists haven’t been able to clone a bird
in Audubon
Researchers have now cloned endangered mammals like black-footed ferrets in an attempt to create a new tool for conservation. But no one has ever managed to clone a bird, leading scientists to look for creative alternatives.
- Scientist cheered by bowhead whale recovery despite Arctic warming
- US plans to protect thousands of miles of coral reefs in Pacific and Caribbean
- Trump officials rush plans to drill in Arctic refuge
- Conservationists condemn US failure to protect wolverines
- The battle to save black-footed ferrets from the plague
- The world’s two oldest common loons are a couple—and amazing parents
- Birds gave this photojournalist hope in the wake of tragedy
- The surprising reason scientists haven’t been able to clone a bird
- Ducks are moving north as winters warm
- When it gets too hot, Phoenix’s lovebirds turn to air conditioning
- False scents can trick predators into ignoring nesting seabirds
- Capturing the whole history of conservation—for better and worse
- Lost birds rely on Earth’s magnetic field to get back on track
- The interior least tern’s comeback is a model conservation success
- A new “Green List” provides road map for species recovery
- Organ transplant recipients have higher rate of COVID-19 breakthroughs
- When will COVID-19 vaccines be fully approved?
- Your sweaty fingertips could help power the next generation of wearable electronics
- The world needs to get serious about managing sand
- This shrimplike creature makes aluminum armor
- The world wasted nearly 1 billion metric tons of food in 2019
- “Green” burials are slowly gaining ground among environmentalists
- *Ancient people may have survived desert droughts by melting ice in lava tubes (“Best Shortform Science” Honorable mention)
- Power lines may mess with honeybees’ behavior and ability to learn
- Scouring the Desert for a Seabird
- A 450-Year Record of North Sea Herring, Pried from Clams
- The Mystery of the 19th Century Maine Marine Monster
- To make better hurricane models, consider air pollution
- Jellies transfer a significant amount of carbon to the deep ocean
- The Resurrection plate is dead, long live the Resurrection plate
- Fibers pick up Silicon Valley traffic during quarantine
- Jupiter’s ocean moons raise tidal waves on one another
- Megaripple migration offers insight into Martian atmosphere
- To save low-lying atolls, adaptive measures need to start now
- Most of the Arctic’s microscopic algae are chilling under ice
- To Protect the World’s Sand, We Need to Know How to Measure It
- Space Weather Lessons from a 1928 Dirigible Debacle
- Edmond Dewan, citizen science, and the mystery of ball lightning
- New England forests were historically shaped by climate, not people
- Poor water management implicated in failure of ancient Khmer capital
- *Pre-Inca Canal System Uses Hillsides as Sponges to Store Water (“Best Shortform Science” Honorable Mention)
- Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat
- *Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorilla to the brink (One of Mongabay’s 15 most popular stories in 2019)
- Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke
- Super-spreaders: How the curious life of a newt could ignite a pandemic
- As biomass energy gains traction, southern US forests feel the burn
- Estonia’s trees: valued resource or squandered second chance?
- Mothers vs. loggers: the destruction of Bialowieza Forest splits Poland
- A new highway could jeopardize tigers in India
- Sand mining ban lifted on beach in Suriname
- How Maryland’s preference for burning trash galvanized activists in Baltimore
- For the Sunrise Movement’s DC Hub, a call to support Black lives
- Forgotten trove of fossil feathers belonged to tiny polar dinosaurs
- Hurricanes, climate change, and the decline of the Maya
- A new pesticide is all the buzz
- Drawing lessons from deep history, Annalee Newitz puts a pandemic in perspective
- A profile of science writer Anil Ananthaswamy
- A profile of podcaster Molly Segal
