6 Weird and Wild Animal Behaviors Revealed in 2022

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December 07, 2022

Animals 6 Weird and Wild Animal Behaviors Revealed in 2022 Octopus outbursts, evading sexual cannibalism, and a human-cockatoo arms race—here are strange animal behaviors we learned about in 2022 By Andrea Thompson

Ecology Global Population Growth Is Slowing Down. Here's One Reason Why In 2022 the world's population hit the eight-billion mark. But such milestones could top out by the end of the century By Katie Peek

Neuroscience Severe COVID May Cause Brain Changes Similar to Aging Key genes that are active in the brains of older people are also active in the brains of people who developed serious COVID By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Sponsor Content Provided by American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science This scientist's gut told him to look after yours. Prof. Eran Elinav, a pioneer of microbiome research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, is uncovering the role of the intestinal microbiome in diseases such as diabetes, ALS, and cancer. That takes guts – plus curiosity, dedication, and brilliance.

Conservation Global Summit Tries to Slow Biodiversity Crisis as Species Wink Out around the World Negotiators have gathered in Montreal for a United Nations summit aimed at hammering out a Paris-style agreement to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030 By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Genetics World's Oldest DNA Discovered, Revealing Ancient Arctic Forest Full of Mastodons Two-million-year-old DNA, the world's oldest, reveals that mastodons once roamed forests in Greenland's far northern reaches By Stephanie Pappas

Anatomy Here's How a Python Jaw Can Fit a Whole Deer This python's jaw has a stretchy secret to gape impressively wide By Bethany Brookshire

Language The Linguistics of Swearing Explain Why We Substitute Darn for Damn Languages from Hindi to Korean tone down swear words by inserting gentler consonants into speech. Here's how "Let's go Brandon" got started By Emily Willingham

Geology How Water Made Fire in an Indonesian Volcano Heavy rains may have set off an outpouring of ash and gases from Indonesia's volcano Semeru "like uncorking a soda bottle" By Stephanie Pappas

Automobiles Forest Service to Explore a New Frontier--Electric Trucks As part of the push to electrify government fleets, employees at three national forests will test out Ford F-150 Lightnings for field operations in rugged and remote areas By Andres Picon,E&E News

Sex & Gender A Question of Sex Watch this documentary series about how gender and sex biases skew science By Meghan McDonough

Vaccines How Vaccines Saved Money and Lives, and China's Zero-COVID Protests: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 44 Vaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies. By Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio | 07:36

Astronomy Construction of World's Largest Radio Observatory Is Finally Under Way Two giant telescopes—one in Australia, the other in South Africa—will comprise the supersensitive Square Kilometer Array By Sarah Wild,Nature magazine

Cosmology Astronomers Grapple with JWST's Discovery of Early Galaxies Researchers are convinced the James Webb Space Telescope has glimpsed an unexpected population of galaxies in the early universe. Now they're trying to decide what this means for our understanding of the cosmos By Jonathan O'Callaghan

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