He’s a friendly beluga whale nicknamed Hvaldimir (pictured above). He likes humans. When he splashed onto the scene in 2019 off northern Norway, he carried a Russian-produced camera harness.
Was Hvaldimir a Kremlin spy?
Now he’s on the move again, farther south, past Oslo and into Swedish waters.
Determined to interact: Hvaldimir actively seeks out human companionship. It’s an unusual behavior he may have learned in a military training program. Read more.
ILLUSTRATION BY JACOPIN, BSIP/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
Understanding a ‘lost world’: Without these complex cells, there would be no fish, flowers, mushrooms—or us. Yet we’re only learning about how far back these organisms go–it may be 1.6 billion years. Here’s what surprises a new study found about the origin of these organisms, known as eukaryotes (illustrated above).
PHOTOGRAPH BY GODONG, UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP/GETTY IMAGES
A banned saint—and a protector of the people: She’s many things to many people: the daughter of Jesus, an Egyptian handmaiden, a fierce warrior of creation and destruction. But to the Roma nation, Saint Sara-la-Kali is a patron protector—and thousands of Roma travel every year to visit the small village where she’s believed to have arrived on shore. (Above, a Roma pilgrim embraces a statue of Santa Sara.)
We asked, you answered: Thanks to readers who wrote in after Friday’s newsletter on fighting heatstroke. “Your article helped me convince my younger compatriots that their ‘tough it out’ approach was dangerous,” writes Mary Henry. “I did not know that it is better to sip water throughout the day. I also did not know that if the body does not get sufficient cool down during the night, then the body is far less able to handle extreme heat during the day,” wrote Katherine Levin.
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