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Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon into two unequal parts. “The sanctuary has become a ‘forest island’, having lost connectivity with surrounding forest patches. Since gibbons are exclusively arboreal animals inhabiting the forest’s upper…

A new study is helping demystify how the solar wind emerges from holes in the Sun.

Many credits in the voluntary market going unused, with study finding some offsetting could make global heating worse

The Canadian Space Agency's Scisat is a valuable hunter of climate change evidence, producing big-name publications in Nature and Science recently despite its advanced age.

A bizarre new star 43,000 times more magnetic than the sun may have just solved one of science's greatest mysteries

An article posted to Nature aims to shed light on the scientific process surrounding the LK-99 replication attempts, and claims a scientific ending to the hype circuit.

Researchers have compared the DNA of 27 Black people who lived at the Catoctin furnace between 1774 and 1850, finding a link between these enslaved Americans and nearly 42,000 living relatives.

The President of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, has resigned from his post after an investigation found evidence of “manipulation of research data” in his research papers

The Science Quiz: Let there be (coherent) light

New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to suggest algorithms are shifting our political views.

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