Lauren Leffer
Journalist at Freelance
Contributing Writer at Popular Science
Contributing Writer at Scientific American
Former Bug Scientist / Current Science Journalist/ Contributor @sciam and @PopSci / Bylines also @NatGeo @Gizmodo @AudubonMag Also (at)laurenleffer.bsky.s
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1 week ago |
popsci.co.kr | Lauren Leffer
지도, GPS, 나침반도 없이 1000 km가 넘는 거리를 칠흑 같은 밤에만 날아 이동해야 한다면 과연 성공할 수 있을까? 인간에게는 불가능에 가까운 여정을 쌀 한 톨보다 작은 뇌를 가진 호주의 ‘보고타 밤나방(Bogong moth)’은 매년 두 차례씩 해낸다. 최근 과학자들은 보고타 밤나방이 지구 자기장뿐만 아니라, 밤하늘의 별까지 활용해 자신의 경로를 찾는다는 사실이 세계 최초로 규명됐다. 스웨덴 룬드대학교의 에릭 워런트, 데이비드 드레이어 교수 연구팀은 국제 학술지 “네이처(Nature)”에 발표한 논문을 통해 보고타 밤나방의 항해술을 증명했다. 칙칙한 베이지색의 야행성 곤충인 보고타 밤나방은 호주 남동부 내륙의 건조한 번식지에서 태어나, 해안가 호주 알프스산맥의 서늘한 동굴까지 1000 km 이상을 이동해 여름의 더위를 피하는 것으로 알려졌다.
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1 week ago |
popsci.com | Lauren Leffer
Plastic bags littering the shoreline is a common sight on beaches around the world. CREDIT: Prasit Photo via Getty Images. Plastic pollution remains one of our largest–and growing– environmental threats.
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popsci.com | Lauren Leffer
Bogong moths were added to the endangered species list in 2021. CREDIT: Dr. Ajay Narendra (Macquarie University, Australia) Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to.
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technewstube.com | Lauren Leffer
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theverge.com | Lauren Leffer
Science /Health‘This is going to cost lives. Children are going to suffer.’ Jun 18, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesScience /Health‘This is going to cost lives. Children are going to suffer.’ Jun 18, 2025, 2:15 PM UTCLast November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that, as secretary of health and human services, he would not “take away anybody’s vaccines.” If you believed him, you were duped.
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