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In 275 interviews and about 330 hours of observation at one firm, a management scholar found colleagues more open after it went mostly remote. The study covers a single professional services company, so it documents one case.
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A survey of more than 3,000 people in the US, England and Australia found coaching was the top comparison for teaching in all three. Past coaching, US answers favored parenting and clergy and the other two favored nursing and social work, the authors say.
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Correctly applied exterior duct tape cut water leakage through household doors by 97% to 98% in University of Hull lab tests. The researchers say it cannot stop water coming through walls, floors or drains.
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In a 2025 survey of 1,812 US adults, 40% of God-believers who trust reason over church teaching lean toward magic, versus 19% of believers who do not. The link holds only where a religious tie remains, and one survey wave cannot show which way anyone is moving.
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Since 2017, species qualifying for Canada's Species at Risk Act waited nearly 2.5 years on average to be listed, the study's authors report. Of 288 species assessed, 153 are still waiting and overdue, so that average leaves out the longest waits.
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Researchers using high-precision radiocarbon dating at two sites say Waihemo's diet had shifted away from moa and seals by about 1410. They report that some economic change in early Māori society began earlier than previously thought.
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Researcher James Kintu says mill contracts signed mainly with men explain why a third of Busoga households went whole days without food. Cane area there tripled between 2000 and 2024, and the link to hunger rests on interviews.
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Ice baths below 15C can cut soreness within a day but may limit long-term muscle gains with regular use, a Conversation article says. Its summary names sleep, eating well and time as the most effective recovery methods.
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Researchers estimate that Indo-Pacific corals release about 3.5 quintillion eggs in one spawning, the first figure of its kind. The authors offer it as a recovery baseline; the split between coral groups is the more usable part.
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NIH put $3.2 billion into basic cystic fibrosis research from 1985 to 2012, an essay in The Conversation reports. Its author warns that grant policies from the Office of Management and Budget could limit similar work.
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PNAS review reports the contiguous US lost about 300 of its 1,450-plus mid-century glaciers and 35% of glacier area. Rockies survivors persist in shaded niches, and the author writes that shrinkage continues, perhaps faster.
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A 79-country study estimates that at least 2.1 million people a year suffer snake envenoming, with an upper bound of 7 million. The authors fill missing national counts with a model, so for countries that keep no records the estimate rests on modelled figures.
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Researchers have named Musango matusadonaensis, a 210-million-year-old Zimbabwean dinosaur, and say Zimbabwe's dinosaurs include species unique to the region. The authors suspect ancient climate explains the split and say they are still working out why.
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Researchers advise Australian reptile handlers to leave disinfectant on snake hooks and tools for 2 to 10 minutes. They say there is not yet evidence that handlers have spread the fungi between wild populations.
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Australian researchers say the 11 temporary villages built after the 2022 floods are the kind of recovery housing to avoid. They want safe sites chosen in advance, as the authors warn a strengthening El Niño could bring extreme fire conditions this summer.
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Humans were catching tuna in East Timor about 44,000 years ago, the oldest definitive evidence in a review drawing on 18 researchers. The authors set it beside a global industry worth around US$40 billion a year, using bones, art and written accounts.
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Many of 45 Western-trained dog behavior specialists who observed free-living street dogs in India began questioning how pet dogs are confined. The authors report what the specialists saw and thought, so the link from confinement to separation anxiety is a hypothesis they raise.
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Researchers who named the Murray Mallee matchstick grasshopper say remnant reserves of under 100 hectares can be critical habitat. The insect has no wings, so in the authors' account a fire in one patch can wipe out a whole population.
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WWF's 2026 Living Planet Index puts the average decline in monitored wildlife populations since 1970 at 73%. Researchers who work with the data say many more populations go uncounted and that sampling bias could push the figure either way.
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Researchers mapping Nepal's mountain rivers count about 294,000 people living in flood-prone valleys below the Himalayas, and say the number is still rising. Roughly 108,000 of them are downstream of glacial lakes that can breach and flush water down the valleys all at once.
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