Creatures favour front arms for most tasks, study suggests, despite fact all eight arms are capable of all actions While some humans find they have two left feet on the dancefloor, octopuses manage to coordinate eight highly flexible arms across a host of behaviours, from foraging to den-building, or moving...
Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants
Court declined preliminary injunction in case brought by scientists seeking to halt purge of more than 1,600 grants The Trump administration can go ahead and purge more than 1,600 research grants issued by National Science Foundation (NSF) worth more than $1bn, after a judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction...
Fiji ant study provides new evidence of insects’ decline on remote islands
DNA analysis of endemic specimens in museums finds 79% of ant populations in Pacific archipelago are shrinking Island-dwelling insects have not been spared the ravages of humanity that have pushed so many of their invertebrate kin into freefall around the world, new research on Fijian ant populations has found. Hundreds...
Nasa blocks Chinese nationals from working on its space programs
Move comes amid escalating anti-China rhetoric under Donald Trump’s administration Nasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the the US and China. The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency....
Interstellar overhype: Nasa debunks claim about alien-made comet
Nasa dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization Skywatchers at Nasa have discounted a Harvard astronomer’s hypothesis that a rare interstellar object hurtling through our solar system is a relic from a civilization in another...