If you're a scientist, and you're thinking 'how can I get funding for my project', maybe you should take a look at some of these studies, get some ideas.
Chimpanzees can catch yawns from androids
Jun 2025, phys.org
My god look at these robot heads.
via Fundació Mona Primate Sanctuary in Spain: Ramiro Joly-Mascheroni, Chimpanzees yawn when observing an android yawn, Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-98639-z
Image credit: Android conditions - Close, Gape, Yawn, and back view - RMJM, Aline Sardin-Damasso & Mona
Plastic trash in bird nests documents the Anthropocene epoch
Mar 2025, phys.org
Plastic waste in bird nests can serve as a time capsule. Researchers of this study collected abandoned common coot nests from central Amsterdam on September 22, 2021, after the breeding season ended, and deconstructed the contents into piles of twigs and near-complete packaging materials. Each artificial item was then carefully examined for manufacturing dates, expiration dates, or any other markings that could reveal its age. The recovered packaging ranged from items like milk and avocados to chocolate packets and fast food wrappers dating back to 1996.
via Leiden University: Auke‐Florian Hiemstra et al, Birds documenting the Anthropocene: Stratigraphy of plastic in urban bird nests, Ecology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70010
Innovative boot sock sampling reveals E. coli levels in surface soils of informal settlements
Mar 2025, phys.org
The boot socks collect dirt from outdoor areas, creating a sample that paints a more comprehensive picture of pathogen levels in soil environments.
via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Monash: Lamiya Bata et al, Assessing E. coli levels in surface soils of informal settlements using boot sock and standard grab methods, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adq9869
Study shows pizza is eaten faster than chopstick-based meals
May 2025, phys.org
via Fujita Health University: Kanako Deguchi et al, The Meal Type Rather than the Meal Sequence Affects the Meal Duration, Number of Chews, and Chewing Tempo, Nutrients (2025). DOI: 10.3390/nu17091576
Physicists determine how to cut onions with fewer tears
May 2025, phsy.org
via Cornell University: Zixuan Wu et al, Droplet Outbursts from Onion Cutting, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.06016
Collective behavior study explores whether pigeons track others' eye movements
Jul 2025, phys.org
via University of Konstanz: Mathilde Delacoux et al, Gaze following in pigeons increases with the number of demonstrators, iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112857
World's first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago
Oct 2025, phys.org
It is called a "butt-drag impression", and it was discovered by "an ardent tracker", like a person who finds escaped fugitives.
via African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience at Nelson Mandela University: Charles W. Helm et al, The unusual, unique ichnology of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) and possible Pleistocene tracks and traces from South Africa, Ichnos (2025). DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2025.2546373
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