Rain-Collecting Rattlesnakes Give New Meaning to ‘Thirst Trap’
In the end, Dr. Boback is hopeful that the image of rattlesnakes peacefully sipping water off each other could remind more people that these animals are social beings, with intimate behaviors and more ...
New Scientist8h
Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay
In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...
New Scientist9h
Adrian Tchaikovsky: "Could life have gone any other way?"
The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...
The Lantern12h
Down to Earth: Essential environmental reads for the new year
Down to Earth is a monthly environmental column that explores what it means to live sustainably. The start of 2025 has been ...
University of California21h
Floods, droughts, then fires: Hydroclimate whiplash is speeding up globally
New research from UC scientists links intensifying wet and dry swings to the atmosphere's sponge-like ability to drop and ...