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Keeping the beat – it’s all in your brain

Published: 1 September 2020

How do people coordinate their actions with the sounds they hear? This basic ability, which allows people to cross the street safely while hearing oncoming traffic, dance to new music or perform...

Origin of a complex life form revealed

Published: 2 September 2020

Researchers from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº have revealed the steps by which two very distinct organisms – bacteria and carpenter ants – have come to depend on one another for survival to become a single...

Vertebrate biodiversity- a glimmer of hope

Published: 18 November 2020

Vertebrate populations - from birds and fish to antelope - are not, in general, declining. Despite what has previously been thought and said.

Ice sheets on the move: how north and south poles connect

Published: 25 November 2020

Over the past 40,000 years, ice sheets thousands of kilometres apart have influenced one another through sea level changes, according to research published today in Nature. New modelling of ice...

Identifying Canada’s key conservation hot spots highlights problem

Published: 5 January 2021

To stop biodiversity loss, Canada recently committed to protecting 30% of its land and sea by 2030. But making conservation decisions about where to locate new protected areas is complicated. It...

As oceans warm, large fish struggle

Published: 13 January 2021

Warming ocean waters could reduce the ability of fish, especially large ones, to extract the oxygen they need from their environment. Animals require oxygen to generate energy for movement, growth...

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