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Indonesian authorities are working to repatriate five baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India, where they were found motherless in a forest, Jakarta's forestry ministry told AFP on Friday.
London has one of the lowest violent crime rates of any region in England and Wales, tops a global ranking of the best cities, and pays more in taxes …
Give, eat, cook and serve are everyday English words. On TikTok, they're doing something different.
Money market funds (MMFs) that grow rapidly when equity markets are soaring pose a systemic risk to global financial systems, new academic research re…
The globe is full of unknown species. But is it really possible to find a completely new animal species in the middle of the largest city in the Unite…
For decades, scientists have understood proteins primarily through two defining features: their amino acid sequence and their three-dimensional struct…
Switching to a more sustainable diet could halve food-related emissions in cities such as Amsterdam, while in cities such as Dhaka and Delhi, the focu…
The Atlantic hurricane season has reached its climatological peak, but a strong El Niño means no hurricanes have formed this year.
The Hammerschmiede clay pit near Pforzen in the eastern Allgäu is famous for its wealth of finds: Besides fossils of two early anthropoid apes, the re…
To be or not to be a gentle parent? That is the question. There is so much controversy these days about gentle parenting. What is it, and what is it n…
To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special signal—the unique pattern of …
As extreme heat becomes more frequent and severe, many people are turning to informal adaptation strategies—rigging up plastic sheeting overhead for s…
Life in the deep sea is under immense pressure—literally. Such extreme conditions can disrupt the delicate structures of proteins essential to life. Yet somehow, the proteins in deep-sea creatures remain functional. This raises an intriguing question: how?
A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, religious bias in America has not disappeared, but the forces shaping it have changed.
Historical records of the deadliest storms and heat waves may be a poor indicator of the scale and impact future weather disasters could have, scienti…
UK gardens took a battering this summer as a heat dome settled over western Europe, and much of the green and pleasant land turned a dusty beige.
Even highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more vulnerable when their cell wall transport system is disrupted, according to a new study from Ume…
The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a mind-bending exercise.
The National Trust warns species are on the brink of extinction in a valley of Eryri - Snowdonia - National Park.
Paul K. Piff, UC Irvine associate professor of psychology, has officially been recognized for what millions of frustrated commuters have long suspecte…
Imagine this. You pick up a contact lens from its container and—yikes!—it falls on the bathroom floor. Before you know it, your cat pounces, claws out…
Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons.
Dozens of glacial lakes have formed across northern India in the last three decades, while existing lakes have expanded rapidly, highlighting the need…
Editing a plant's genes is only half the battle. Before a new, improved trait can ever reach a farmer's field, scientists must be able to grow a whole…
A new report from Portland State University's Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative (HRAC) and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health offers an…
The Republic of Djibouti will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 11 a.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 14, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becomin…
An international team of researchers, including CIIMAR, has developed a new tool that could help produce clams that are more resistant to disease and …
