27 May Elephants Have Developed A Specific Alarm Call For ‘Human!’, Study Says

Elephants are among the most intelligent animals in the world. Previous studies have found that elephants are able to recognize individual faces and that they have a unique and sophisticated set of social norms which even includes mourning. Recently scientists have discovered that elephants have their own form of rudimentary language which seems primarily designed to warn other members of their herd about potential threats.

Researchers from a collaborative team comprising scientists from Oxford University, Save the Elephants and Disney’s Animal Kingdom have been studying the noises elephants make when exposed to certain threats. The researchers found that if elephants are exposed to the sound of a human voice, specifically speaking in the language of the Samburu tribe of northern Kenya, that elephants become vigilant and emit a distinctive noise that sounds like a low rumble. Other elephants, not exposed to the human voice, reacted to the elephant alarm by running away and making the exact same rumbling noise.

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21 May World’s Fastest Car – 1,000mph Bloodhound SSC – First Public Runs

A team of British scientists and engineers have created a full scale model for a car they intend to drive more than 1,000 mph. 

The model, named the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC), was built by a team of aerodynamic experts, who took three years to build it. Recently shown off to the world at the Farnborough International Air Show, the 42-foot-long Bloodhound resembles a bright blue missile with wheels. 

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21 May Next-Gen Megascope for Astronomy Taking Shape on Chilean Mountaintop | Space

The Giant Magellan Telescope has notched some important milestones on its path to ‘first light’ in the mid-2020s.

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21 May Pluto Has a Buried Ocean — And So Might Many Other Worlds | Space

Buried oceans like the one sloshing beneath the icy surface of the Jupiter moon Europa may be far more common across the cosmos than scientists had imagined.

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14 May Could There Be Life on Mars Today? | Space

The search for life on Mars shouldn’t focus exclusively on the distant past, some researchers say.

Four billion years ago, the Martian surface was apparently quite habitable, featuring rivers, lakes and even a deep ocean. Indeed, some astrobiologists view ancient Mars as an even better cradle for life than Earth was, and they suspect that life on our planet may have come here long ago aboard Mars rocks blasted into space by a powerful impact.

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14 May Searching for the world’s last remaining sawfish

Florida is one of a few remaining strongholds for the smalltooth sawfish in the world, pictured here in Everglades National Park. A second species, the largetooth sawfish used to populate America’s coastline, but hasn’t been seen since 1961. All five species of sawfish are endangered.

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14 May Climate change: Scientists test radical ways to fix Earth’s climate

Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth’s climate. It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth’s poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The center is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on their own stop dangerous and irreversible damage to the planet.

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