Jason Bittel
Freelance Science Writer at Freelance
Wild animal & author of SORT OF FUNNY FIELD GUIDES (Nat Geo Books 2025). Words @NatGeo, @WashingtonPost, @NYTScience. Prev: @KSJatMIT, @NatGeoExplorers. He/him.
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3 weeks ago |
nationalgeographic.fr | Jason Bittel |David Doubilet
Une nouvelle découverte scientifique révèle que les crocodiles américains (Crocodylus acutus) femelles peuvent donner naissance à une progéniture sans l’intervention d’un mâle, un phénomène connu sous le nom de parthénogenèse facultative, ou « naissance vierge ».
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3 weeks ago |
sciencenews.org | Jason Bittel
Scientists working to unlock the secrets of de-extinction recently announced what they say is a turning point for the movement: the creation of transgenic mice with long, luxurious golden locks of tufted fur inspired by the coats of woolly mammoths. They’re called Colossal woolly mice. And yes, they are cute to boot. Transgenic mice — those that have had their genomes altered through genetic engineering — are not new.
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1 month ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Jason Bittel
Malaria causes more than 600,000 deaths each year, and is just one of numerous deadly human diseases transported by mosquitoes. But what if we could make our blood poisonous to the parasites that crave it? While it sounds like science fiction, the idea isn’t as far-fetched as it might sound.
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1 month ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Jason Bittel
Krill are like the popcorn shrimp of the Southern Ocean—everyone from whales and seals to fish and penguins wants a bite. But according to a new study, these translucent, pinkie finger-sized crustaceans aren’t as helpless as you might think.
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1 month ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Jason Bittel
Did you know female birds can sing? That might sound like a simple statement—an obvious statement—but just a little over a decade ago, most scientists viewed birdsong as trait that belonged nearly exclusively to male birds. This is just one of many ways scientists have historically short-changed female birds, researchers argue in a new study published in the International Journal of Avian Science.
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