>The bill now goes to Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk, who is expected to sign it into law. In May, DeWine said pausing the gas tax would be too detrimental to highway infrastructure funding. On Monday, DeWine said he’d be more in favor of a pause so long as the funding for transportation is protected.
>While these actions show the animals recognise something fundamental has changed, it does not automatically mean they grasp the complex human concept of death. In fact, a full understanding of death isn’t actually necessary to explain the patterns we observed. Instead, their actions are best explained by the powerful, lingering instinct to care for their young.
>We found that the length of time a mother continues to carry her infant depends on how strong their bond was, her life experience, the physical risks of holding onto the body and how quickly it naturally breaks down.
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>University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for an annual symposium on research into the leaf’s medicinal potential from the American Kratom Association — none of which has been disclosed in his conflict of interest statements or on the papers he publishes.
>The fight to keep kratom legal across the country has taken on increased urgency as more potent kratom derivatives have appeared on store shelves and evidence has mounted of the leaf’s risks to users’ health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5,200 people in the United States died from drug overdoses involving kratom between 2020 and 2024. And calls to poison control centers involving kratom have spiked 1,200% in the last decade.
For folks not in science or academia, both universities and academic journals have explicit conflict-of-interest (COI) reporting requirements.
>While we know quite a lot about what our ancestors looked like and what they ate, so far we didn’t know anything about their social behaviour. Because behaviours don’t fossilise.
>Scientists used to think that the first placentals behaved like shrews because they looked like shrews. And as the common belief was that all shrews are solitary, scientists thought the first placental ancestors were too.
>Now we know that both assumptions were wrong.
Peer-reviewed paper in PNAS:
S.F. Walmsley, C. Olivier, A.V. Jaeggi, L. Makuya, J.S. Martin, L.D. Hayes, & C. Schradin, Pair living emerged early in placental mammals, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (31) e2528458123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2528458123 (2026).
>Starbucks baristas have been fighting for a first contract for nearly five years. Workers started an organizing wave with union election wins in Buffalo, New York, in late 2021. Since then, over 700 stores have voted union — affiliating with the Service Employees International Union’s Workers United division — but that’s still fewer than 5 percent of the company’s 16,000 outlets in the United States.
>To stop the union’s spread, the company has racked up the largest number of unfair labor practices in US history, with 550 still unresolved. Despite well-documented management intimidation, the union continues to grow by several stores a month.