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<p>Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures</p><p>A scientist who decoded the dictionary that a bird uses to communicate has won a $100,000 prize for making progress towards a world in which humans can talk to the animals – without being met with a blank response.</p><p>Dr Julie Elie at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2026 Coller-Dolittle prize for two-way interspecies communication after working out the 11 core calls in the zebra finch vocabulary and their meanings.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/26/human-animal-communication-step-closer-scientist-wins-prize-for-decoding-birdsong">Continue reading...</a>
Rekordvärmeböljan i Europa just nu hade varit omöjlig för bara 50 år sen – och det är människan som ligger bakom den. Det slås fast i en ny rapport från forskarnätverket World Weather Attribution. WWA varnar också för att fler rekord i värmestress kan slås de närmaste dagarna – även i Sverige. – Det omöjliga har blivit möjligt, säger Friederike Otto, klimatprofessor vid Imperial College i London och ansvarig för studien.
The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented humidity levels make this heatwave especially dangerous
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<p>The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC will have to be drained again. Donald Trump has blamed vandalism for the failure to keep the water “American flag blue”. But what if this small body of water is proof that the president can’t outrun the truth?</p><p>Jonathan Freedland speaks to Arwa Mahdawi about why this project, which has cost the taxpayer millions, is proving to be such an embarrassing failure for a man obsessed with image</p><p><em>Archive: AP, Reuters</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2026/jun/26/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflective-pool-vandalism-podcast">Continue reading...</a>
<p>5.6-magnitude California tremor, 7.2-magnitude temblor in Japan and two quakes in Venezuela all struck within hours</p><p>A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck a rural part of northern <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</a> on Wednesday. Hours later, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the northern coast of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/japan">Japan</a> and two powerful earthquakes rocked <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/venezuela">Venezuela</a> in a devastating mass casualty event.</p><p>The tremors happened in the span of eight hours, prompting online speculation over whether they were related.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/25/three-recent-powerful-earthquakes-not-related">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>Scorching temperatures across France rose to a record-breaking average 30 degrees on Wednesday</p>
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