Do chimpanzees have rhythm? Listen to their drumming.
“You feel it in your body when they drum—it’s insanely impressive,” says Vesta Eleuteri. She’s a cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna who studies chimpanzee drumming and observed over
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Pink squirrels and green sharks—why do so many animals ‘glow’ in UV light?
Shine an ultraviolet flashlight on flying squirrels, and they glow bright pink. Catch a scorpion on a full moon, and you’ll notice that it’s a haunting blue. Rays and sharks
Whatever happened to the samurai?
The samurai, Japan’s celebrated lineage of warriors, emerged in the Heian period (794-1185), when the rise of their status enabled them to mingle with the refined nobility living in the
Find your creative side in Toyama’s living craft village in Japan
In a town hewn from wood, immerse yourself in traditional arts and get hands-on in a craft studio. Surrounded by mountains in central Japan’s Toyama Prefecture, Inami lives and breathes
Video Friday: Robotic Hippotherapy Horse-Riding Simulator
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the
Large Hadron Collider Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second
Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal By Elizabeth Gibney & Nature magazine LHC experiments don’t create
Climate Change Will Cause a Lifetime of Extreme Heat for Today’s Children
Young people today will be exposed to a number of heat waves that no one would have experienced before the burning of fossil fuels started raising global temperatures By Celeste
Stronger Solar Activity Cycles May Be in the Sun’s Forecast
The Sun May Be Entering an Era of Stronger 11-Year Cycles The sun has produced stunning auroras on Earth in recent years as solar activity has peaked—but expect more in
Trump Aims to Cut Hospital Disaster Preparedness Program
Trump Aims to Cut Program Used to Help Hospitals Evacuate during Disasters The Hospital Preparedness Program helps hospitals and emergency managers save lives in wildfires, tornadoes, pandemics and other mass-casualty
Do We Really Know Less about the Deep Sea Than the Moon or Mars?
What do we really know about the deep ocean? Whether Earth’s ocean is an ecological paradise teeming with wildlife or a mysterious, stormy underworld hiding mythological sea monsters, it goes
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