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What happened to the three-metre tall apes that once lived alongside orangutans? A new study suggests they were too slow to adapt to a changing world.
Magnetic fields billions of light years away offer clues to the nature of intense flashes from the sky known as fast radio bursts.
Nigeria is expected to experience severe flooding this year. With proper planning and management its impact may not be so devastating.
Soil degradation is a huge challenge for farmers around the world. But new research is showing how farmers can balance crop yields with protecting the environment.
Early humans called Denisovans lived in a remote mountain cave between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago, and possibly longer still, raising intriguing questions about their relationship to modern humans.
Astronomers have discovered that stars like the Sun produce huge amounts of lithium late in their lives.
“Nairobi fly” are obvious due to their red and black colouration; these are warning colours of their toxicity.
The skull of Oculudentavis, found encased in amber, provides new clues into the transition from dinosaurs to birds and may be smallest of either ever found.
Astronomers using a new technique to hunt black holes found one 70 times as heavy as the Sun
Boreal forests store one-third of all terrestrial carbon - but for how long?
Itch is usually caused by something harmful, or something our body assumes might be harmful when actually it’s not.
Keeping global warming to 1.5°C could significantly decrease the frequency of extreme climate events across Africa.
If we want any future for wild populations of the numerous species traded for pets, exhibits and use in medicines, drastic action is needed to control their international and domestic trade.
The region faces some of the world’s highest rates of habitat loss, as well as direct over-exploitation of species.
Historical evidence shows African elephants are endangered by the ivory trade, despite any attempt at regulating the market. A total ban is the only hope for the world’s largest living land animal.
Many scientific names have changed since China’s ‘protected species list’ was last updated in 1989.
Across the world, an area bigger than Russia is officially classed as “degraded land”. We’ll never restore its wildlife to what it was – but there are pragmatic steps we can take to improve things.
Few people are familiar with the pangolin. It is a shy creature, about as big as a medium-sized dog, and its diet consists of ants and termites. Most distinctively, it has armoured plates and will curl…
There has been much debate about how cats went from hunting in the wild to a much-loved pet. That is because we know little about their domestication. Now researchers have found the earliest case of cat…
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Assistant Professor, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor of Soil Science, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Senior Professor of Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Systematic Entomologist, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Doctor of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Associate professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Investigator, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Postdoctoral fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Research professor in palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Graduate Student, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Senior Research Scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences
