More than 350 people in Kerala have died as a result of flooding
Since India’s monsoon season began in June, more than 200,000 people in the southern state of Kerala have had to abandon their homes and move to relief camps
Call off the grizzly bear trophy hunt, it’s immoral and unscientific
The first grizzly bear hunt in Wyoming for over 40 years ignores the questionable conservation status and emotional capacities of these iconic animals, says Marc Bekoff
Facebook bans hundreds of accounts linked to Russia and Iran
Ahead of the US mid-term elections in November, Facebook has taken down accounts linked with Russia and Iran for engaging in misleading political behaviour
New world map is a more accurate Earth and shows Africa’s full size
The “Equal Earth” projection shows the true area of continents such as Africa without greatly distorting their shapes and is already being adopted by NASA
Lobster krill fight off big penguins with their tiny pincers
Penguin-mounted cameras show that 7-centimetre-long crustaceans can sometimes fend off attacks from predators 10 times as large
Nanofibre net draws drinking water from the air for drought-hit people
A new material made from nanofibres can capture hundreds of litres of drinking water from the air and could help drought-hit communities
Bacteria can be used to turn type A blood into universal type O
A new family of enzymes found in the human gut has been used to quickly turn type A blood into type O - which can be used for transfusions in anyone
Nanobots can eat nerve agents and then spit out an antidote
Proteins that break down nerve agents while simultaneously pumping out the toxin’s antidote could one day be embedded in clothing or skin ointments
Don’t restrict women’s contraception rights through moral panic
Failures of the contraception app Natural Cycles have been linked to abortions in Sweden. But critics should remember all contraception fails sometimes
5000-year-old monument was built by a society without leaders
Why go to the effort to build a vast monument when you’re a wandering herder in a society of equals? A 5000-year-old burial site in Kenya offers some clues