Hawaiian Crows Return to the Wild, Where They Are ‘Guides to Souls’
December 4, 2024 4 min read Hawaiian ‘Soul Guide’ Crow Returns to the Wild in Conservation Win The Hawaiian crow, or ‘alalā, has been extinct in the wild since 2002. A new effort to reintroduce birds of this species—considered important guides to the souls of the dead in Hawaiian tradition—is underway By Elizabeth Anne Brown
Does Sleep Training Work?
This piece is part of Scientific American’s column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here . In countries like the U.S. and U.K., “training” a baby to sleep through the night is practically a rite of passage—one endorsed by more than six in 10 baby books, the American Academy of Pediatrics and countless parenting
Why Gen Z Men Voted for Trump
A few years ago I was hired to help revise a psychology textbook to make it more engaging for Gen Z. I’m a millennial, but my younger brother is Gen Z (“digital natives” born between 1997 and 2012), and our perceptions of American life differ—sometimes significantly. To help with my revisions, I read iGen by
Can Antarctic Wildlife Survive Another Deadly Bird Flu Season?
Bird flu has crept uncomfortably close to home in recent months. Public health experts have detected nearly five dozen known infections of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in people in the U.S. Dairy farmers are approaching a full year of exposure to the virus in their herds. And more than 100 million birds in U.S.
65,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Hearth Structure Discovered in Gibraltar
Archaeologists say they have discovered a new type of Neanderthal hearth at Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar. This hearth structure coincides with predictions from theoretical studies which require the use of heating structures for obtaining birch tar, commonly used in hafting. The researchers propose that the hearth was used for heating rockroses under anoxic conditions by burning
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