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For birds, flocks promise safety – especially if you’re faster than your neighbor

As I walked along Bolivar Flats, just across from Galveston Island in Texas, I watched flocks of sanderlings forage along the frothy wavefront as it surged and retreated. Nearby, Caspian terns, American avocets, and black skimmers rested on the beach, each in its own group.

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5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror.

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Solving the world’s microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsed

Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains.

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‘Liberal’ has become a term of derision in US politics – the historical reasons are complicated

Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century American history. In Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals), he explores how the word liberal – and particularly its variant white liberal – became a…

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Shame can silence, subjugate and damage us – a philosopher considers its implications

To read Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Shame is to be reminded of how vulnerable we are to the emotion’s inhibitions and agonies. We shame, we are ashamed, and we expend significant energy imagining shameful situations so we might avoid them.

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The surprising recovery of once-rare birds

When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in my region were nowhere to be found.

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The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as astronomers thought

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

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Supernova theory links an exploding star to global cooling and human evolution

What’s the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient environments and fossils for many years, sets out his ideas about what happened in the distant past – with enormous consequences.

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Mysterious ‘Petralona Man’ Skull Found In Cave 60 Years Ago Baffles Experts After New Study

"Conspiracy TikTokers will have a field day with this."

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How a 300-year-old Scottish country estate escaped the wrecking ball

Between 1945 and 1974, Scotland lost a proportionally higher number of country houses than England — 175 of these stately formerly aristocratic homes (think Downton Abbey) were demolished, according to Country Life magazine in August 1979.

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A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching

American psychologist Abraham Maslow’s well-known hierarchy of needs theory, first proposed in 1943, positions self-actualisation at the apex of human motivation and flourishing. According to Maslow, it is only after an individual’s basic physiological needs are met – along with the need for safety, love and esteem – that they…

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The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US?

The opinion opens a door for future claims by countries seeking reparations for climate-related harm.

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Misunderstood Malthus: The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom and gloom has lessons for today

No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” position – the idea that humans are subject to natural limits – has been vilified and scorned. Today, the term is lobbed at…

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Pilgrims, or posers? How medieval satire exposed people who lied about their travels to Rome and the Holy Land

Situated at the end of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route – known in English as St. James’ Way, or simply “the Camino” – the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela is constantly filled with pilgrims who have completed their journeys.

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Size matters, but so does beauty and vigour — at least when it comes to peacocks

In 1871, Charles Darwin introduced his theory of sexual selection by female choice in The Descent of Man. He suggested females of a species would exhibit a preference for beauty and ornamentation when choosing mates, leading to a prevalence of those traits.

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How the nature of environmental law is changing in defense of the planet and the climate

The effects of Earth's changing climate is driving up the number of legal suits related to environmental issues

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Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’

We are all familiar with cherubs – small, winged children that have a status in Western art history as angels.

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Friday essay: who was Anne Frank?

Everyone knows her photo. For some it shows the cheeky smile of a young girl, “Miss Quack Quack”. For others, the image represents an enigmatic veil of mystery, similar to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah: searching for signs of Zanzibar’s most famous writer, all I found was trinkets and tourists

Zanzibar has long been an island of arrivals for traders, sailors, slaves and, more recently, waves of tourists. I arrived as a wedding guest and a reader of the Zanzibar born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, in search of the literary and emotional landscapes that shape his fiction. For a week, I…

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How the neoliberalism of ‘Hayek’s Bastards’ changed the world – and fuelled the rise of the populist right

Neoliberalism has had an enormous influence on the world, driving policy and governance at the national and international level, particularly since the 1980s, when it was championed by the Reagan administration in the United States and the Thatcher government in the United Kingdom.

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Evidence Shows The Shroud Of Turin Wasn’t Draped Over The Body Of Jesus, But On A Statue Instead

The researcher claims the shroud is no more than an artistic creation.

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A toxicologist’s guide to poison ivy’s itch and bee stings’ burning pain – 2 examples of nature’s chemical warfare

Enjoying the outdoors carries the danger of running into nature’s less-friendly side: toxic plants and animals.

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New discovery at CERN could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.

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From printing presses to Facebook feeds: What yesterday’s witch hunts have in common with today’s misinformation crisis

Between 1400 and 1780, an estimated 100,000 people, mostly women, were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe. About half that number were executed – killings motivated by a constellation of beliefs about women, truth, evil and magic.

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‘Provocative in a good way’: John Hirst was a rigorous historian, independent thinker and passionate believer in Australia

I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its role and function in the early colonies. What was life as a convict like? Was transportation a cruel…

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