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Flora and Fauna

In 1965, a bottlenose dolphin named Peter was taught to mimic English words in a flooded Caribbean house where researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt lived waist-deep in seawater with him for 10 weeks, and the dolphin learned to blow air through his blowhole to shape recognisable versions of 'hello' and 'ball'.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026

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Laughter may be contagious before we even decide to join in — when researchers played laughter to people in brain scanners, regions that prepare facial movements activated automatically, as if the brain were already priming the face to respond

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 27, 2026

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Psychology says people who always need the last word in an argument aren't stubborn or childish, they're often people who grew up in homes where silence meant losing and speaking last was the only way to feel safe

By Daniel Moran · Aug 26, 2026

Climate Science

How does a rodent felling saplings across a headwater stream raise a valley's water table by a metre or more and store measurably more carbon in the wet sediment behind its dams than the trees it cut down?

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 26, 2026

Iron and Ice

Jupiter is so massive that its shared centre of gravity with the Sun lies just outside the Sun’s surface — making it the only planet whose individual barycentre with the Sun falls beyond the Sun itself, and the largest contributor to the star’s planetary wobble.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026

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The Strait of Malacca narrows to about 2.8 kilometres at its tightest point, and for the merchants who built the Melaka Sultanate into a trading power not long after 1400, that narrowness was the entire business model.

By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Aug 25, 2026

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2004 436 articles

2003 301 articles

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