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2 months ago | 
newscientist.com | Michael Marshall
The Moral CircleJeff Sebo (W. W. Norton US: on sale; UK: March)Should chimpanzees have rights? What about elephants? Or ants? Or microorganisms? And how about artificial intelligence? These questions are at the heart of , a crisply argued little book by philosopher Jeff Sebo. Based at New York University, Sebo has spent years arguing that consciousness is widespread in the animal kingdom and that we should extend our moral circle to encompass many more types…
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Michael Marshall
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Michael Marshall
Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Braving the winter cold Sunday, a group of Korean-Americans rallied in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol to protest the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. They represent a growing push back against the effort to impeach Yoon in the wake of his short-lived declaration of martial law on Dec. 3.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
newscientist.com | Michael Marshall
Dinosaurs may have first evolved close to the equator, not in the far south of the southern hemisphere as previously thought. A modelling study suggests they originated in a region that covers what is now the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin and Sahara desert. “When you consider the gaps in the fossil record and the evolutionary tree of dinosaurs, it could very likely be a centre point for where dinosaurs originated,” says Joel Heath at University College London.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
newscientist.com | Michael Marshall
Would we feel better if we slept a bit more? Possibly – but it isn’t guaranteed. While we know the amount of sleep the average person needs, there is a lot of variation. To get a better idea about how many hours you require – and how and when to get it – let’s start with the basics. This article is part of special series investigating key questions about sleep. Read more here.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
newscientist.com | Michael Marshall
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. So, volcanoes are scary. I have vivid memories of visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum with my parents and seeing the twisted preserved corpses of people that were buried under the pyroclastic flow from Vesuvius.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
pnas.org | Michael Marshall |Carter Smith |Elizabeth A. DeMattia |Thomas Strine
The magnitude of legal wildlife trade and implications for species survivalBenjamin Michael Marshall https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9554-0605, Aubrey L. Alamshah https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8955-9952, Pedro Cardoso, +14 , Phillip Cassey, Sebastian Chekunov https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4085-5786, Evan A. Eskew https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1153-5356, Caroline S. Fukushima, Pablo García-Díaz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5402-0611, Meredith L. Gore https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2613-4715, Julie L.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
newscientist.com | Michael Marshall
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. This month, Our Human Story turns 50 (months old), so we’re looking both backwards and forwards. For the 50th instalment, I thought I would do something a little different: take stock of what’s happened, and look ahead. I emailed 10 researchers, asking them two questions:What has been the biggest advance in human evolution…
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
newscientist.com | Michael Marshall
He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, but Santa’s festive surveillance seemingly does nothing to improve children’s behaviour. Instead, it may be that wider Christmas rituals, like putting up a tree and going carolling, can prompt children to be a bit nicer – a finding that may help us better understand how religion influences behaviour. “The question was, does belief in Santa Claus influence how children behave?” says Rohan Kapitány at Durham University in the UK. “Does this belief,…
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
newscientist.com | Michael Marshall
Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient humans walking over the same muddy lakeshore, probably within days of each other. It is one of the most dramatic demonstrations ever found that the world was once home to multiple hominin species living side by side. “It’s really exceptional that we find this evidence for two different species walking across that surface,” says Kevin Hatala at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
