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Philosophers have argued for millennia about whether reality exists inside or outside our heads – but maybe there’s a pragmatic solution.
‘Larry, I have to confess. I’m not a wasp. I’m an orchid.’
Alyssa Weinstein
You can barely communicate with your kids, but these creatures are sending complex interspecies instructions.
Habitat loss to palm oil plantations in Central Kalimantan, Borneo. The forests of Borneo are home to the few remaining Bornean orangutan Pongo pygmaeus , Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni , and the Borneo pygmy elephant Elephas maximus borneensis , among other endangered species.
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New research has found that different types of habitat loss can change the stability of whole plant and animal communities.
You can’t resist the yawn.
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Everybody does it, but why? Scientists aren’t really sure if exhaustion, stress or some other social factor is at the root of yawning – and how it can be so contagious.