Ancient Giraffe Relative Was Evolution's Headbutting Champion, Perhaps Besting Dinosaurs

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June 03, 2022

Evolution Ancient Giraffe Relative Was Evolution's Headbutting Champion, Perhaps Besting Dinosaurs Natural selection propels the giraffe family to absolute extremes—and it is not just about the absurdly long necks By Rachel Nuwer

Weather The 'Wall of Wind' Can Blow Away Buildings at Category 5 Hurricane Strength The test facility is helping engineers design safer homes—but it's not powerful enough to mimic the stronger hurricanes fueled by climate change By The Conversation US,Richard Olson,Ameyu B. Tolera,Arindam Chowdhury,Ioannis Zisis

Astronomy James Webb Space Telescope Set to Study Two Strange Super-Earths Space agency officials promise to deliver geology results from worlds dozens of light-years away By Elizabeth Howell,SPACE.com

Climate Change Attribution Science Linking Warming to Disasters Is Rapidly Advancing Event attribution is one of the fastest developing areas of climate science since it began 20 years ago By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Paleontology Sex Life of One of Earth's Earliest Animals Exposed The first known male appendage from trilobites has been found in a 508-million-year-old fossil By Joanna Thompson

Animals Meerkats Are Getting Climate Sick For meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, rising temperatures spark deadly outbreaks of tuberculosis. By Karen Hopkin | 03:24

Privacy Political Affiliation Influences Our Fear of Data Collection It's not government Americans don't trust with their data; it's the opposite political party By Samuel Dooley,Angelica Goetzen,Elissa M. Redmiles

Public Health Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue Tuberculosis is preventable and curable, yet it afflicts one quarter of the world's population—mostly because of poverty By Sofia Moutinho

Animals Jewel Beetles' Iridescent Shells Deter Hungry Birds--By Freaking Them Out Weirdly shifting colors may serve dual evolutionary purposes, providing both camouflage and conspicuous warning By Kate Golembiewski

Public Health Pediatric Gun Deaths Are a Massive Problem in the U.S. Thoughts and prayers do not stop bullets. We must do better for our children By Eric W. Fleegler,Lois K. Lee

Climate Change Sweltering India Turns to Superheating Coal for Cooling The need to use coal to boost power supplies illustrates the challenge of quickly increasing renewable energy to avoid bigger climate impacts By Benjamin Storrow,Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Space & Physics, Volume 5, Issue 3

FROM THE ARCHIVE DNA Reveals Giraffes Are 4 Species--Not 1 Finding could alter conservation strategies for long-necked animals By Chris Woolston,Nature magazine | September 2016

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