Animal abduction: On Panama’s Jicarón island, biologists documented five male capuchin monkeys carrying at least eleven different infant howler monkeys—a behavior never before seen in wild primates.

Rise and spread: The sightings were remotely recorded by over 85 camera traps, which allowed scientists to pinpoint the origin and subsequent spread of this social tradition over a 15-month period. (See interactive timeline https://www.ab.mpg.de/671374/Capuchin-tool-use/interspecies-abduction-tradition).

Novel animal tradition: The research offers the first known documentation of a cultural tradition in which animals repeatedly abduct and carry infants of another species—without any clear benefit to themselves.

Research collaboration: The study was led by a team from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) in Germany, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, Universidad del Rosario in Colombia and Ithaca College in the United States.

The University of Texas at Arlington-based Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, known as TMAC, is helping the state's manufacturers reduce pollution with real-time sensors that track their environmental impact. The innovative effort is producing results that could transform how companies protect air and water quality. The program recently earned TMAC an Environmental Excellence award from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued by Governor Greg Abbott for technical innovation.

Researchers from China have examined South–South higher education interactions amid “triple disruptions,” applying Southern epistemologies and a typology of inward- and outward-oriented higher internationalization. Through analyzing a range of selected documents, their work reveals that South–South higher education interactions occur through a mix of approaches with a preference for inward-oriented expansion diffusion. The notion of new types of colonialism serves as a wake-up call for Southern countries’ outward-oriented internationalization for soft power enhancement.

Over the past 20 years, online news headlines have become longer, more negative, and increasingly focused on click-through rates—regardless of journalistic quality. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, who analyzed around 40 million headlines from English-language news outlets across the last two decades. Their study has been published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.