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A National Institutes of Health (NIH) working group is recommending immediate retirement for nearly all of the agency’s 451 chimpanzees. In a report released January 22, the group urges the NIH to end half of 22 current experiments involving chimps and begin planning the. . . Read More

An archive of tens of thousands of animal sounds is now online. The Macaulay Library is the world’s largest and oldest scientific collection of biodiversity audio recordings. The. . . Read More

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to end its sea otter relocation program, allowing the marine mammals to roam freely down the southern California coastline. The relocation. . . Read More

Researchers studying the global carbon cycle have identified a previously unaccounted-for carbon source. In a new study, they estimate that approximately half of the carbon buried in the soil by erosion will be re-released into the atmosphere within the next 500 years – or. . . Read More

At Argonne National Laboratory, scientists are using sound to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. The technology was originally developed by NASA to simulate microgravity conditions. But the experiments at Argonne are showing a. . . Read More