Scientists have caught a once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event in progress, as two lifeforms have merged into one. (newatlas.com)
Global Sperm Counts Have Declined 52% since 1970 with the Majority of Decline in Western Countries (medium.com)
The decline in sperm counts is a growing concern worldwide, with rates plummeting by as much as 52% since the 1970s. This alarming trend has far-reaching implications for human health and reproduction, raising questions about the future of fertility and the potential consequences for individuals, families, and society as a...
The oldest human remains discovered in Poland are over 100,000 years old. They are hand bones of a Neanderthal child digested by a large bird. (scienceinpoland.pl)
Bonobos not the peace-loving primates once thought, study reveals: Male-on-male aggression more frequent among bonobos than chimps, but aggression between males and females less common. (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2666803...
Some parasitic wasps have evolved mutualistic relationships with viruses. (en.wikipedia.org)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydnaviriformidae#Life_cy…...
Sperm whales drop giant poop bombs to save themselves from orca attack (www.livescience.com)
Hehehe
For Some Mammals, Large Adult Daughters, Not Sons, Are the Norm - The New York Times | Ghostarchive (ghostarchive.org)
I’m a little perturbed by the meme phrasing in the title and how quickly I recognized it. But I guess they saw the opportunity and took it, even at the risk of looking unserious, in my view.
UC Irvine study: vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health (news.uci.edu)
Freeze on Russian collaboration disrupts urgently needed permafrost data flow (news.mongabay.com)
Accelerating Arctic warming threatens to thaw more and more carbon-rich permafrost and release vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere, but scientists don’t know when such a tipping point event might occur....
The only class that can lead the green transition is our own (www.cpusa.org)
Things seem dire…...
'Miraculous birth' expected at NC lab from stingray with no mate, possibly impregnated by shark (www.wral.com)
i never knew sharks and stingrays were closely related enough to cross breed. neat!
“Old Smoker” and the “Squalling Newborns”: Strange new star type discovered hiding in the Milky Way (www.salon.com)
Jupters ever changing storms (external-content.duckduckgo.com)
That red spot is getting smaller
The world’s first IVF rhino pregnancy could save a species (www.aljazeera.com)
Data fabrication at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (forbetterscience.com)
Gamers at risk of irreversible hearing loss and tinnitus, study suggests (www.bbc.co.uk)
uncritical support to games gamer-gulag
Lucy Cooke’s new book ‘Bitch’ busts myths about female animals (www.sciencenews.org)
“Female animals are just as promiscuous, competitive, aggressive, dominant and dynamic as males,” she writes....
Ouch. Canadarm2 Took a Direct Hit From a Micrometeorite (www.universetoday.com)
Living in space comes with risks. For astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), those risks occasionally make themselves intrusively apparent....
"Sniffing women's tears reduces aggressive behavior in men" hey PMC, are you doing ok?? (www.sciencedaily.com)
bocchi-cry power-in-misery
Twin research indicates that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health (med.stanford.edu)
How the Stanford Prison Experiment convinced generations that humans are inherently selfish (web.archive.org)
Psychology has a repeatability problem. Turns out Zimbardo wasn’t completely honest about how hands-off the researchers were. The Stanford Prison Experiment is the latest famous experiment in psychology that is proving difficult to reproduce....
[CW: CSA] Why is it that whenever you hear about $historical_figure being a philanderer, oh haha he just loves women, etc. it actually turns out they're a full-on rapist (en.wikipedia.org)
Credit to David Revoy on Mastodon for bringing this to my attention (along with an excellent cartoon) framapiaf.org/
The universe is expanding faster than theory predicts – physicists are searching for new ideas that might explain the mismatch (theconversation.com)
Prominent journal editor fired for retweeting Onion article about disregard for Palestinian lives (www.science.org)
headline edited because it’s not a war on Hamas, it’s an indiscriminate genocidal war on Palestinians
Ancient pots hold clues about how diverse diets helped herders thrive in southern Africa (theconversation.com)
