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1 month ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
$Please enter a valid amountEmail:Please enter a valid emailCountry:Ialso wish to receive emails from AAAS/Science and Science advertisers,including information on products, services and special offers which mayinclude but are not limited to news, careers information & upcomingevents. Support nonprofit science journalismSophisticated, trustworthy reporting about science has never been more important.
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1 month ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
Six years ago, biologist Lorena
Viloria Gómora was aboard a boat in the Gulf of California off Mexico’s west coast, attaching satellite tracking tags to fin whales, when the water came alive. Some 100 fin and endangered blue whales began to feed nearby, their backs breaking the surface.
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1 month ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
At the Necropolis of Pantalica—a 3000-year-old outcrop with rock-cut tombs—on Sicily, geologist Marcia Bjornerud of Lawrence University and biologist David Haskell of the University of the South embark on an unusual experiment. Haskell takes out a backpack-size red square made of wood and places it on the bank of a stream that runs through a canyon near the ruins. The square suddenly becomes a frame for a tiny ecosystem: a frog, a snail, and some green algae growing on rocks.
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1 month ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., today to protest what they consider the antiscience actions of President Donald Trump in the nearly 7 weeks since he took office.
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
BOSTON—By the time biologist Emma Courtney met bioinformatician J. P. Flores in person here last week at the annual conference of AAAS (publisher of Science), they’d already bonded virtually over their concerns about the impact that U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders on spending and other issues might have on science.
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
The mysterious grunts and moans of the humpback whale have long captivated humans—so much so that we put recordings of them onto the Voyager spacecraft to convey the sounds of Earth to other life forms. A new study published today in Science reveals an unexpected similarity between human and humpback vocalizations: The songs have a statistical structure similar to that of human language.
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
$Please enter a valid amountEmail:Please enter a valid emailCountry:Ialso wish to receive emails from AAAS/Science and Science advertisers,including information on products, services and special offers which mayinclude but are not limited to news, careers information & upcomingevents. Support nonprofit science journalismSophisticated, trustworthy reporting about science has never been more important.
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
$Please enter a valid amountEmail:Please enter a valid emailCountry:Ialso wish to receive emails from AAAS/Science and Science advertisers,including information on products, services and special offers which mayinclude but are not limited to news, careers information & upcomingevents. Support nonprofit science journalismSophisticated, trustworthy reporting about science has never been more important.
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2 months ago | 
science.org | Alexa Robles Gil
Humans spend a lot of time and money keeping their hair from getting too oily. Polar bears, on the other hand, depend on that greasy sheen. The bears’ oily fur may help prevent ice from sticking to their bodies in frigid Arctic weather, researchers report today in Science Advances. The study—the first to demonstrate the anti-icing properties of polar bear hair—may one day inspire new, more environmentally friendly anti-icing materials for surface coatings, ski technology, or the aerospace industry.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Alexa Robles-Gil |Alexa Robles Gil
At dawn on a day in August, biologist Santiago Monroy and producer José Álvarez traversed through the Colombian forests and moors in search of birds. They carried with them parabolic microphones, recorders, cameras and field gear. They traveled more than 600 miles to gather audio. The journey took them from the Eastern Plains to the Chingaza moor, and finally to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
