Rachel Nuwer
Freelance journalist for NYT, SciAm, Nature & more. Author of I FEEL LOVE (2023) and POACHED (2018).
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10 hours ago |
virginislandsdailynews.com | Rachel Nuwer
If you’ve ever really looked at how flamingos eat, you know how captivatingly peculiar it is. They bob their inverted heads in the water and do a kind of waddle cha-cha as they inch their way across shallow water, filter-feeding small crustaceans, insects, microscopic algae and other tiny aquatic morsels.
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2 days ago |
nytimes.com | Rachel Nuwer
Three cooperative birds and a model bird head helped scientists figure out what flamingos are actually doing when they stick their heads upside down underwater. "Just as spiders produce webs, flamingos produce vortices," Victor Ortega-Jiménez, an integrative biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, said. Credit Credit... If you've ever really looked at how flamingos eat, you know how captivatingly peculiar it is.
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3 days ago |
scientificamerican.com | Rachel Nuwer
What do Persian cats, Pekingese dogs and pugs have in common? They all share a dramatically distorted skull, with a flat, round face and a nose pushed up between their eyes. This unnatural morphology is the product of decades or centuries of artificial selection to make our pedigreed animals more closely resemble the intrinsic cuteness of human babies.
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2 weeks ago |
portside.org | Rachel Nuwer
Sunday Science: Dire Wolves and Woolly Mammoths: Why Scientists Are Worried About De-Extinction Published April 27, 2025 When news broke that Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, had resurrected three extinct dire wolves, the internet reacted with awe. It is a species that last roamed the earth some 13,000 years ago, but has found recent fame thanks to Game of Thrones, which features fictional dire wolves.
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Rachel Nuwer
Dire wolves and woolly mammoths: Why scientists are worried about de-extinctionColossal BiosciencesThe creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns. When news broke that Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, had resurrected three extinct dire wolves, the internet reacted with awe.
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It's Earth Day. Here's a story about the best actions we can take to reduce our overall impact on the planet. https://t.co/4bH5vYfzCm @nytclimate
A leading vaccine researcher's top new worries for the future: 1) lots of people, especially children, are going to die 2) we're going to lose a generation of new scientists, because who wants to go into a career that's actively being condemned @NYMag https://t.co/CZYQZN2b8g
Drugs that eliminate wakefulness, obscure cannabis molecules and wearable devices that modulate brain activity are just a few of the new treatments researchers are investigating to tackle chronic insomnia. @Nature https://t.co/hgGKLBNmiL
