Anti-vaccine advocates have for years used foreboding imagery of syringes to paint immunizations as dark and dangerous. But recent vaccine conspiracy theories are casting an air of fear around more mundane things — like cows and lettuce.In widespread posts online in recent weeks, misinformation purveyors have spread an erroneous narrative that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are…
Plant-based foods are well and truly in the limelight, as innovators work to mimic conventional meat and dairy products with animal-free ingredients. Statista expects the global plant-based food market to be valued at an eye-watering $77bn (€69bn) by 2025.But at a global level, plant-based foods may not provide sufficient nutrition to achieve public health targets.In…
AnimalsWe’re not the only animals that suffer anxiety. From lizards to song sparrows, challenging situations can have long-lasting impacts on species.ByLiz LangleyPublished April 25, 2023• 6 min readMany of us react to stressful situations by drinking too much coffee, sleeping too much or not enough, or overeating (to meet this story’s deadline, for instance, I…
It's April 18, the official deadline to file your federal and state income tax returns for 2022. (It is also, apparently, National Animal Crackers Day for those who celebrate...
Foreign Affairs Ukraine is a cornered animal, and it plans to lash out like one. The leak of classified documents on the gaming and chat platform Discord continues to be a treasure trove of information about America’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. Earlier revelations from the Discord leak suggested Ukraine is a cornered animal.…
In the late 1990s, a London-based research team confirmed that, in a laboratory setting at least, PERVs could infect human cells.The discovery, for a time, “killed xenotransplantation,” said Björn Petersen, a xenotransplantation researcher with the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, the German government’s animal-disease research center. “Pharmaceutical companies withdrew their money from the research.”Around the world, the…
Tropical forest researchers are increasingly using bioacoustics to record and analyze ecosystem soundscapes, the sounds that animals make, which in turn can be used as a proxy for forest health.Researchers studying soundscapes in logged rainforests in Indonesian Borneo have tested a novel approach that could provide a reliable and low-cost way for conservation agencies and…
What’s inside a miniature, 2,500-year-old coffin? Well, now researchers at the British Museum know. A team of scientists used a noninvasive technique called neutron tomography to peer inside six Egyptian animal coffins that have been sealed for over two millennia. The contents are described in a study published on April 20 in the journal Scientific…
In parallel to recent developments in machine learning like GPT-4, a group of scientists has recently proposed the use of neural tissue itself, carefully grown to recreate the structures of the animal brain, as a computational substrate. After all, if AI is inspired by neurological systems, what better medium to do computing than an actual…
Bojji and Kage encounter a forest of magical animals in episode 2 of Ousama Ranking: Yuuki no Takarabako, titled “Beasts of the Wilderness.”The duo continues their adventures as they travel with the royal knights to their next destination and rest midway through the night. Relaxing in an area known to have wild beasts, they keep…
