How dramatic daily swings in oxygen shaped early animal life – new study

Environmental stress in evolution can be reframed as a powerful engine of innovation, not simply a barrier to survival.

Emma Hammarlund, Associate Professor, Geobiology, Lund University • conversation
March 21, 2025 ~8 min

The animal alliances reshaping our understanding of intelligence

Scientists have long thought intelligence tends to develop through social interactions with an animals’ own species.

Alexandra Schnell, Research Fellow in Comparative Psychology, University of Cambridge • conversation
March 20, 2025 ~8 min


My team discovered ‘dark oxygen’ on the seafloor – now we’re trying to understand how it was made

Scientists are exploring the deep ocean to understand how oxygen can be produced there without sunlight.

Andrew Sweetman, Professor of Seafloor Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Scottish Association for Marine Science • conversation
March 20, 2025 ~6 min

If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art

How can we create new ways for understanding how AI image-production models inform our experience of the world?

Anthony Downey, Professor of Visual Culture, Birmingham City University • conversation
March 19, 2025 ~7 min

Evolution: features that help finding a mate may lead to smaller brains

Males and females differing in body size is a common outcome of sexual selection.

Benjamin Padilla-Morales, Postdoctoral Researcher of Bioinformatics, University of Bath • conversation
March 19, 2025 ~7 min

Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides

Local community archaeology tourism benefits the heritage, the people and the rainforest.

José Iriarte, Professor of Archaeology, University of Exeter • conversation
March 18, 2025 ~8 min

The 30,000 year old vulture that reveals a completely new type of fossilisation

Volcanic rocks might contain much more exciting fossils than previously believed.

Maria McNamara, Professor, Palaeobiology, University College Cork • conversation
March 18, 2025 ~6 min

There’s a growing heart health divide in the US

The top 20% of high-income, college-educated Americans have far lower rates of cardiovascular disease than the rest of the population.

Washington U. in St. Louis • futurity
March 17, 2025 ~6 min


Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted

Handing over the tasks once done by human developers comes with some major risks.

Jordi Cabot, Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) • conversation
March 17, 2025 ~6 min

Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises

Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 17, 2025 ~6 min

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