Bright feathers, bright brains: hummingbirds ‘can order numerically’

Hummingbirds are not only bright in appearance but also in brain, it would seem, with new…

Congress wary on future aid as well-connected businesses rake in millions

The revelation that well-heeled businesses and nonprofits benefited from emergency small business loans is making it…

Lawmakers paralyzed over response to Russian bounty intel

Sen. Roy Blunt said, “I think there are contradictory pieces of intelligence on this,” after a…

Birdwatch: a pair of barn owls make our midsummer’s evening

We came in search of quail – surely one of Britain’s most elusive birds – and,…

No business need at all now for a Chinese nuclear plant in the UK

Get ready for the “new Huawei” is the word from Westminster, meaning another flare-up in UK-China…

The Guardian view on a post-Covid recovery: not much building back greener | Editorial

Boris Johnson does not want a crisis to go to waste. The coronavirus-induced recession is widely…

Scientists put forward plan to create universal species list

A plan to create the first universally recognised list of species on Earth has prompted hopes…

Legal action threatened over Boris Johnson’s ‘unlawful’ green recovery plans

Boris Johnson’s much-vaunted green recovery plans are inadequate and “clearly unlawful” as they do not match…

Fast fashion creates misery, and that’s a bad look | Bidisha

During lockdown, everyone’s id has been allowed to float untethered. Obsessions, manias, strange desires and perverse…

Republicans in danger of losing huge portion of their female senators

Senate Republicans could lose nearly half of the women currently in their caucus come November after…