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Javan rhinos, once thought safe from poachers, are anything but
A painting from 1861, depicting the hunting of Javan rhino in Indonesia. W.F.A. Zimmermann, Rhino Resource Center Jason…
We discovered a new way mountains are formed – from ‘mantle waves’ inside the Earth
The Drakensberg mountains form part of the Great Escarpment encircling southern Africa. Ondrej Bucek / Shutterstock Thomas Gernon,…
From thoughts to words: How AI deciphers neural signals to help a man with ALS speak
Casey Harrell, who has ALS, works with a brain-computer interface to turn his thoughts into words. Nicholas Card…
Investigation reveals global fisheries are in far worse shape than we thought – and many have already collapsed
Graham Edgar, University of Tasmania When fish are taken from our oceans faster than they can reproduce, their…
How back-to-back hurricanes set off a year of compounding disasters for one city − and alarm bells about risks in a warming world
Recovery from a hurricane gets even harder when more storms follow, as Lake Charles, La., residents saw. Joe…
Air pollution in South Africa: affordable new devices use AI to monitor hotspots in real time
Bruce Mellado, University of the Witwatersrand Air quality has become one of the most important public health issues…
Satellites are making the night sky brighter – as a launch site, NZ has a duty to combat light pollution
Wikimedia Commons/Yourong F. Wang, CC BY-SA William Grant, University of Canterbury New Zealand’s space sector has been developing…
Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic
Wolfgang Preiser, Stellenbosch University; Cheryl Baxter, Stellenbosch University, and Jean Nachega, Stellenbosch University The mpox outbreak in Africa…
A 600-year-old coral shows us how the Pacific Ocean has changed since 1370
Scientists taking a sample from the massive boulder coral in Fiji back in 1998. Joel Orempuller (IRD) Juan…
WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?
Inkoly/Shutterstock C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW Sydney The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a public health emergency…