Secret lives of cats could hold clues for wildcat return in Wales
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Nancie Fetzer
December 22, 2025
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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What is the secret to happiness? Does happiness come from within, or is it shaped by external influences such as our jobs, health, relationships and material circumstances? A new study published in Nature Human Behavior shows that happiness can come from either within or from external influences, from both, or neither—and
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Credit: Kevin Bidwell from Pexels Just southwest of Boise lies one of the last vast swaths of solitude in the United States. The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning red gulches, winding rivers and a moon-like landscape where a volcano with a caldera once 600 times larger than Mount St. Helens erupted, stands as the largest unprotected
A sampled image at full extent (top) and for a smaller inset area (bottom) featuring clearly discernible land covers and road infrastructure. Credit: Remote Sensing (2024). DOI: 10.3390/rs16050839 Satellite images analyzed by AI are emerging as a new tool in finding unmapped roads that bring environmental destruction to wilderness areas. James Cook University’s Distinguished Professor
Credit: New Phytologist (2024). DOI: 10.1111/nph.19561 International research co-authored by Joshua Fisher, associate professor in Chapman University’s Schmid College of Science and Technology, suggests that studying root function in tropical forests could help vegetation models improve predictions of climate change. The study was published on Feb. 28 in New Phytologist. When it comes to understanding
Credit: Fotoz by David G/Shutterstock Nature is inspiring scientists all the time. Some ideas are still in research, like beaver-inspired super-warm wetsuits. But others are already part of human life, like Velcro (based on burdock burrs) and the Japanese bullet train (modeled on kingfishers’ long narrow beak). Cicadas inspired my team’s recent research into self-cleaning
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The chemical industry took a page out of the tobacco playbook when they discovered and suppressed their knowledge of health harms caused by exposure to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), according to an analysis of previously secret industry documents by UC San Francisco (UCSF) researchers. A new paper published May 31