Successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds
08 Dec 2023Wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests, a new study has found.
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How human Aboriginal remains were traded for scientific accolades
29 Nov 2023Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains for scientific accolades, study reveals
Innovative aquaculture system turns waste wood into nutritious seafood
20 Nov 2023Researchers hoping to rebrand a marine pest as a nutritious food have developed the world’s first system of farming shipworms, which they have renamed ‘Naked Clams’.
Experts predict ‘catastrophic ecosystem collapse’ of UK forests within the next 50 years if action not taken
08 Nov 2023Other threats to UK forests include competition with society for water, viral diseases, and extreme weather affecting forest management.
Offset markets: new approach could help save tropical forests by restoring faith in carbon credits
30 Oct 2023A new way to price carbon credits could encourage desperately needed investment in forest preservation and boost vital progress towards net-zero.
Vulnerability to different COVID-19 mutations depends on previous infections and vaccination, study suggests
06 Oct 2023A person’s immune response to variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on their previous exposure – and differences in the focus of immune responses will help scientists understand how to optimise vaccines in the future to provide broad protection.
Explore life in the Universe with new postgraduate programme
18 Sep 2023A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound question of all: are we alone?
Cost to protect globally important forests falls disproportionately on those living closest
17 Aug 2023Local communities are not incentivised to protect tropical forests that are hugely valuable for global climate regulation, a new study has found. International funding could help smallholder farmers to boost yields on their existing land to incentivise long-term forest protection.
Meet Cambridge's mussel man
10 Aug 2023How new ways of shellfish farming could help meet future food needs.
Stealth swimmers: fish hide behind others to hunt
07 Aug 2023An experiment on coral reefs provides the first evidence that predators use other animals for motion camouflage to approach their prey without detection.
