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Primatologists have suggested rerouting a 1.65-km-long railway track that has divided an eastern Assam Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary dedicated to the western hoolock gibbon into two unequal parts. “The sanctuary has become a ‘forest island’, having lost connectivity with surrounding forest patches. Since gibbons are exclusively arboreal animals inhabiting the forest’s upper…

A new study is helping demystify how the solar wind emerges from holes in the Sun.

Researchers have compared the DNA of 27 Black people who lived at the Catoctin furnace between 1774 and 1850, finding a link between these enslaved Americans and nearly 42,000 living relatives.

The President of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, has resigned from his post after an investigation found evidence of “manipulation of research data” in his research papers

The Science Quiz: Let there be (coherent) light

New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to suggest algorithms are shifting our political views.

Science For all newsletter by Priyali Prakash: Climate extremes in 2023 

Massive eruptions 719 million years ago in what is now Canada may have sucked enough CO2 from the atmosphere to freeze Earth over 2 million years later.

Physicists use extreme precision tests to search for flaws in the Standard Model. A new study used a strong electric field in the molecule hafnium fluoride to measure the electric dipole moment of its valence electrons, and concluded by finding no evidence of 'new physics'. This result precludes the existence…