Sex between two animals of the same sex is widespread. Over 1,000 animal species from nematode worms to penguins to cattle all dabble in same-sex interactions. But a relationship between a bull named Achille and a male donkey named Patrocolo is raising eyebrows. The pair lives on a plateau in Ethiopia, and both could have
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just revealed a mystery in our cosmic neighborhood. In a paper published Monday in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers using Hubble studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies — small galaxies containing a few thousand to hundreds of millions of stars — and found that much of the oxygen they expected to see is
A Pennsylvania resident recently arrived home to find what looked like an unassuming black trash bag in their yard. But the bag moved and lifted its head. Turns out, it was not a bag, but a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). And something was very wrong with her. A state Game Warden brought the eagle to
PhD students at Indonesian universities say that the quality of supervision in the nation is often poor, and that many supervisors engage in inappropriate behaviour.Credit: epsgalery85/Shutterstock When Rully Charitas Prahmana went to the United States as a visiting lecturer, the academic culture shock was extreme. “I was surprised to see an academic supervisor go cycling
Civil-rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois.Credit: Bettmann/Getty The Ends of Race: The Rise and Fall of a Scientific Myth Geoffrey Galt Harpham Princeton University Press (2026) Two stories about the history of science around race emerge from the nineteenth century. Each tugs at our attention in a different way. Humanities scholar Geoffrey Galt Harpham
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