Search Results for: Goats

Animals

Culturally prized mountain goats may be vanishing from Indigenous land in Canada

As fewer mountain goats are spotted along British Columbia’s central coast, First Nations people team up with biologists to assess the population.

Archaeology

Mysterious marks on Ice Age cave art may have been a form of record keeping

Hunter-gatherers during the Ice Age may have recorded when prey mated and gave birth, suggesting that these people possessed complex cognitive skills

Life

A new metric of extinction risk considers how cultures care for species

Conservation efforts should consider relationships between cultural groups and the species important to them, researchers argue.

Animals

Leeches expose wildlife’s whereabouts and may aid conservation efforts

DNA from the blood meals of more than 30,000 leeches shows how animals use the protected Ailaoshan Nature Reserve in China.

Health & Medicine

Sleeping sickness is nearing elimination. An experimental drug could help

Clinical trials of acoziborole are under way in sub-Saharan Africa, where sleeping sickness is endemic.

Ecosystems

A Caribbean island gets everyone involved in protecting beloved species

Scientists on Saba are introducing island residents to conservation of Caribbean orchids, red-billed tropicbirds and urchins.

Climate

How much does eating meat affect nations’ greenhouse gas emissions?

How much meat eating affects worldwide greenhouse gas emissions comes clear in new country-by-country analyses.

Anthropology

How using sheepskin for legal papers may have prevented fraud

Removing fat is key to turning animal skin into parchment. With sheepskin, the process creates a writing surface easily marred by scratched-out words.

Archaeology

Ancient ‘smellscapes’ are wafting out of artifacts and old texts

In studying and reviving long-ago scents, archaeologists aim to understand how people experienced, and interpreted, their worlds through smell.

Humans

How wielding lamps and torches shed new light on Stone Age cave art

Experiments with stone lamps and juniper branch torches are helping scientists see 12,500-year-old cave art with fresh eyes.

Physics

Nuclear clocks could outdo atomic clocks as the most precise timepieces

Better clocks could improve technologies that depend on them, such as GPS navigation, and help test fundamental ideas of physics.

Life

Michelle O’Malley seeks greener chemistry through elusive fungi

Michelle O’Malley studies anaerobic gut fungi, microbes that could help make chemicals and fuels from sustainable sources.