This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Villa de Leyva is a small, scenic town in Colombia’s eastern branch of the Andes Mountains. In this town, home to over 24,000 people, most of the houses are painted white, with… Continue reading Uncovering the Secrets of Colombia’s Rich Fossil Deposits | Science
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Paleontologists Are Still Unraveling the Mystery of the First Dinosaur | Science
Paleontologists are still investigating what the carnivorous dinosaur Megalosaurus looked like. De Agostini via Getty Images The reptilian giant found in England’s Stonesfield quarry needed a name. Throughout the 18th century and into the 19th, European naturalists in had been pondering strange and giant bones of long-dead creatures uncovered in quarries and sent to them… Continue reading Paleontologists Are Still Unraveling the Mystery of the First Dinosaur | Science
In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand | Science
Fabrizio Fidati, a 57-year-old amputee, uses the MiniTouch device with his prosthetic to accurately sort cubes of different temperatures. EPFL Caillet Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling of human touch using their prosthetics are becoming closer to reality. Now, new technology is allowing them to feel temperature—even in limbs that are no longer part of… Continue reading In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand | Science
The Dugong, a Huggable, Seagrass-Loving Sea Cow, Has a New Best Friend: Drones | Science
By Danna Staaf Photograph by Javier Aznar González de Rueda To see a dugong is to want to hug a dugong, with its round body, gently curved flippers and gigantic smiling face. Along with their manatee cousins, these marine mammals have earned the nickname “sea cows” thanks to their grazing habits, consuming up to 85… Continue reading The Dugong, a Huggable, Seagrass-Loving Sea Cow, Has a New Best Friend: Drones | Science
Earth’s Migratory Animals Are in Peril, According to U.N. Report | Science
A mother humpback whale and calf are seen off the coast of Brazil. Carl De Souza / AFP via Getty Images Every year, humpback whales travel for thousands of miles from the polar regions down to the tropics for a variety of reasons, including to give birth to their young. When they live and feed… Continue reading Earth’s Migratory Animals Are in Peril, According to U.N. Report | Science
The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads | Science
By Ben Goldfarb Photographs by Tailyr Irvine Drive high enough into western Montana’s Lolo National Forest, up a succession of dirt tracks that parallel glittering creeks and twist through stands of fir and spruce, and eventually you’ll come to a clearing. At first glance it’s unremarkable, a grassy, sunlit hillside scattered with bleached tree trunks,… Continue reading The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads | Science
What We’ve Learned Through Sports Psychology Research | Science
Sports psychology research has increased dramatically in the last decade or so. Knowable Magazine Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to punt or pass, or a basketball team’s debate over whether… Continue reading What We’ve Learned Through Sports Psychology Research | Science
Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case | Science
Delias sambawana, a butterfly that hails from Indonesia, at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace and phylogeny by Hillis, Zwickl, and Gutell When Akito Kawahara was 8 years old, his father took him on a members-only tour of the insect collection at the American Museum of Natural History in… Continue reading Where Did Butterflies Come From? This Scientist Is On the Case | Science
The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Venus | Science
One of the main arguments for studying other planets is for what they can tell us about Earth. Did or do they harbor life? What clues can they offer about our planet’s past? If scientists want to investigate an Earth-like planet, one convenient opportunity is Venus. “Venus is the exoplanet next door,” says Suzanne Smrekar,… Continue reading The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Venus | Science
These Ancient Celts Were Buried With Their Animals | Science
The remains of a dog buried next to a baby Laffranchi et al., 2024, CC-BY 4.0 Almost two decades ago, when construction unearthed a 2,000-year-old Celtic cemetery in what’s now the Italian city of Verona, scientists found the remains of humans buried alongside the other species that were most important to them. A menagerie of… Continue reading These Ancient Celts Were Buried With Their Animals | Science