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Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here New Guinea singing dogs are related to Australian dingoes.Credit: Daniel Heuclin/NPL The largest-ever study of ancient dog genomes has revealed a lot about our four-legged friends. The analysis of more than two dozen Eurasian dogs suggests

An inquiry on the bushfires in Australia has warned about the ‘compounding disasters’ that are coming, as the fires continue to displace and kill wildlife and devastate the economy. Devastating bushfires The bushfires in Australia from 2019 to 2020 are historic in that they killed and displaced almost three billion wild animals, and causing losses

The merging of two black holes releases gravitational waves.Credit: Science Photo Library/Alamy Astronomers observed 39 cosmic events that released gravitational waves over a 6-month period in 2019 — a rate of more than one per week. The bounty, described in a series of papers published on 28 October, demonstrates how observatories that detect these ripples

Polio vaccination efforts continue in Pakistan, one of the few places in the world where the wild virus has not been eradicated.Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty A vaccine against a type of polio that is spreading in the Southern Hemisphere is expected to receive emergency approval before the end of the year. If it does, it will

Countries have banded together to propose marine reserves to protect Antarctic krill species from global warming and overfishing. The cornerstone of the biologically diverse Antarctic Peninsula is the shrimp-like, small Antarctic krill. READ: Scientists Determine How Marsh Birds Survive Dangerous Hurricanes and Natural Disasters such as Hurricane Zeta The Importance of and Threats To Krill According to University of Colorado environmental scientist Cassandra Brooks, krill are the

The suckers on an octopus’s arms not only help it to capture a crab but also allow it to taste its prey. Credit: Peter Kilian Neuroscience 29 October 2020 Some of the cells on a cephalopod’s suckers respond to substances produced by ocean creatures. The arms of an octopus are lined with hundreds of suckers,

Typhoon Molave left the Philippines on Tuesday and struck Vietnam on Wednesday. The typhoon claimed 16 lives in the Philippines, while the death toll in Vietnam is now at 19. (Photo: Reuters Connect )Typhoon Molave left the Philippines on Tuesday and struck Vietnam on Wednesday. The typhoon claimed 16 lives in the Philippines, while the

Scientists have learnt to produce the relatively unstable element lithium (pictured) inside a microscope, making the metal’s crystallization easy to observe. Credit: Petr Jan Juracka/SPL Materials science 29 October 2020 A standard laboratory tool allows researchers to produce two potentially dangerous metals and to observe them as they form. Lithium and sodium are highly reactive

Rosetta’s lander Philae on the surface of a comet (artist’s impression).Credit: ESA/ATG medialab The chaotic crash-landing of a robotic spacecraft called Philae has yielded serendipitous insights into the softness of comets. In 2014, the European Space Agency’s pioneering lander touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, after a ten-year journey aboard its mothership, Rosetta. But rather than

Scientists say reforestation in tropical forest and savannah biomes in Africa must be done properly. Otherwise, they may do more harm than good. According to Université de Montréal geography department visiting researcher Julie Aleman, the state of ecosystems should be taken into consideration in planning for reforestation in the sub-Saharan region of Africa. Savannah versus tropical forest According to Aleman, all the regions they have studied

Hear the latest from the world of science, brought to you by Benjamin Thompson and Noah Baker. Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 In this episode: 00:59 The ethics of creating consciousness Brain organoids, created by culturing stem cells in a petri dish, are a mainstay of neuroscience research. But as

Yukon Environment Officers rescued an injured bald eagle on Wednesday and brought it to the Yukon Wildlife Preserve for Assessment and Treatment.  According to Maria Hallock, the eagle has a “very severe infection,” the director of animal care and the veterinarian at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, and inflammation on its carpal joint.  Hallock also reported

Flying to conduct fieldwork is one reason climate researchers might travel more than other scientists.Credit: Andrew McCaren/LNP/Shutterstock In recent years, a growing number of climate-change researchers have made the conscious decision to reduce their carbon footprints by avoiding air travel or flying less. But an analysis suggests that, despite these efforts, climate researchers travel and

The collecting arm on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft plunged as far as 48 centimetres into asteroid Bennu’s surface.Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA overachieves during asteroid sampling NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission exceeded expectations when it grabbed rocks and dirt off the surface of the asteroid Bennu on 20 October. The spacecraft gathered so much material that several rocks

Millions of used cars that are substandard and highly polluting are being sold to poorer countries like Africa by richer countries such as the US, Europe, and Japan, and contribute to climate change. Millions of old cars They are being “dumped” into poor nations, said a UN report. A total of 14 million poor quality,

With 38 time zones worldwide, juggling the timings of virtual conferences to suit everyone can be a tricky task.Credit: Adapted from Getty Back in 2019, travelling to a conference many time zones away was difficult, but the content of the posters, the roar of the crowd and a few shots of caffeine were usually enough