Squirrels' parkour may be Olympic-ready

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08/08/2021 Squirrels use parkour tricks when leaping from branch to branch Squirrels navigate through trees by making rapid calculations to balance trade-offs between branch flexibility and the distance between tree limbs. Read More What science tells us about reducing coronavirus spread from wind instruments Performers struggled to find evidence that would free them from musical lockdown, so they partnered with researchers to get some answers. Read More How particle detectors capture matter’s hidden, beautiful reality Old and new detectors trace the whirling paths of subatomic particles. Read More A hammerhead shark baby boom near Florida hints at a historic nursery Finding an endangered shark nursery in a vast ocean is like finding a needle in a haystack. But that’s just what scientists did near Miami. Read More Greece’s Santorini volcano erupts more often when sea level drops During past periods of lower sea levels, when more of Earth’s water was locked up in glaciers during ice ages, the Santorini volcano erupted more. Read More Science News is a nonprofit. We depend on our readers to support our journalism. You can help by subscribing for as little as $25. SUBSCRIBE NOW A lunar magnetic field may have lasted for only a short time New analyses of Apollo-era lunar rocks suggest that any magnetosphere that the moon ever had endured for no more than 500 million years. Read More A new book reveals stories of ancient life written in North America’s rocks In ‘How the Mountains Grew,’ John Dvorak probes the interlinked geology and biology buried within the rocks of North America. Read More Black holes born with magnetic fields quickly shed them Like a shaggy dog in springtime, some black holes have to shed. New computer simulations reveal how black holes might discard their magnetic fields. Read More Snake-eating spiders are surprisingly common Spiders from at least 11 families feed on serpents many times their size, employing a host of tactics to turn even venomous snakes into soup. Read More A super-short gamma-ray burst defies astronomers’ expectations A faraway eruption of gamma rays that lasted for only a second had a surprising origin: the implosion of a massive star. Read More Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |   Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US