‘Phantom decoys’ manipulate human shoppers – but bees may be immune to their charms

Oct 11, 2023 03:37 am UTC| Nature

Have you ever waited in a long queue only to find the ice cream flavour you wanted is gone? What did you choose instead? In the field of behavioural economics, researchers have shown that people make very predictable...

Saudia, PepsiCo Ink MoU for In-Flight Recycling Initiative During MENACW 2023

Oct 10, 2023 05:37 am UTC| Economy Nature Business

Saudia and PepsiCo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to further their commitment to sustainability and environmental conservation to collect recyclable material onboard Saudia flights. The objective is to divert...

Climate change is disrupting ocean currents. We’re using satellites and ships to understand how

Oct 09, 2023 13:06 pm UTC| Nature

Earths ocean is incredibly vast. Some parts of it are so remote that the nearest human habitation is the International Space Station. As the world warms, what happens in the ocean and what happens to the ocean will be...

How Arctic landscapes and Canadian cityscapes share a similar pattern

Oct 09, 2023 13:06 pm UTC| Nature

The year 2023 has been one of extremes, from heatwaves that baked millions across the globe and made the summer the worlds hottest on record to the fires that forced tens of thousands to evacuate across Western Canada....

Climate Change Series

6 reasons why global temperatures are spiking right now

Oct 09, 2023 13:04 pm UTC| Nature

The world is very warm right now. Were not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins. Take the preliminary September global-average temperature anomaly of 1.7C above...

Bison are sacred to Native Americans − but each tribe has its own special relationship to them

Oct 09, 2023 12:56 pm UTC| Nature

The American bison, or American buffalo as they are commonly called, were once close to extinction. Their numbers dropped from 30-60 million to around 500 because of overhunting in the 19th century. But they made an...

Discovery of half-a-million-year-old wooden structure shows we're wrong to underestimate our ancient relatives

Oct 09, 2023 12:55 pm UTC| Nature

To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In todays fast changing world, older technologies, even those...