Global shark populations are plummeting despite efforts to curb mass killings for their fins. Peruvian authorities said Monday they had seized about 1.3 US tons of illegally harvested shark fins, a delicacy in some Asian countries that has placed the predatory creatures at grave risk. The discovery was made at the warehouse of an export … Read more
Road development in the Congo Basin forest during the last five years. Credit: Remote Sensing of Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114380 The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed mostly intact, road development has recently … Read more
The cave-dwelling mysid shrimp Hemimysis margalefi. Credit: Marie Derrien Homing is an animal’s ability to navigate towards an original location, such as a breeding spot or foraging territory. Salmon and racing pigeons are famous for homing, but similar behaviors occur in groups as diverse as bees, frogs, rats, and sea turtles. There, homing individuals are … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People’s deep connection with the ocean—their “marine identity”—can help us reset society’s relationship with the seas, new research led by Dr. Pamela Buchan, from the University of Exeter, suggests. A diverse, international group of marine researchers and practitioners met to discuss marine identity—based on testimony and photos from multiple countries. The … Read more
The insights gained from this study show that stochastic volatility has significant influence on the pricing of perpetual American strangle options and their boundary conditions, offering crucial insights for minimizing risk in volatile markets. Credit: Dr. Ji-Hun Yoon from Pusan National University, Korea Perpetual American strangle options (PASOs) offer investors a method for minimizing risk … Read more
The US Coast Guard’s Titan submersible hearing kicked off with a startling revelation. “I told him I’m not getting in it,” former OceanGate engineering director Tony Nissen said to a panel of Coast Guard investigators, referring to a 2018 conversation in which CEO Stockton Rush allegedly asked Nissen to act as a pilot in an … Read more
In this photo provided by Liz Chrastil, a neuroscientist with the University of California, Irvine, she her holds her newborn son in May 2020. Credit: Courtesy Liz Chrastil via AP Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new … Read more
This image, captured by the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on NOAA-21, shows Hurricane Beryl at 12:50 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time on June 30, 2024, during its rapid intensification. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Accurately predicting … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many histories of Nazi Germany are accompanied by a photograph of two scientists measuring a man’s facial features with a caliper. The picture is often contextualized, in these books, museums, and image archives as an illustration of the National Socialist obsession with quantifiable racial purity, particularly as it was applied to … Read more
Some of the last words from the crew aboard the doomed Titan submersible were revealed in a hearing Monday, presented by the U.S. Coast Guard alongside a re-creation of the journey aboard the fated experimental vessel. The hearing, expected to last two weeks, will examine the causes of the June 2023 implosion that instantly killed … Read more
