Sharks in Brazil Test Positive for a Surprising Contaminant: CocaineCocaine has been detected in sharks for the first time, but scientists aren’t sure of the impactBy Stephanie PappasResearchers found cocaine in sharpnose sharks off Brazil. These sharks are in the...
Machine learning is key to developments in medical diagnosticsMario Heller/Panos Pictures Why Machines LearnAnil Ananthaswamy (Allen Lane (UK); Penguin Random House (US)) As someone who writes for a living, I routinely feel assaulted by the onslaught of generative artificial intelligence. How long before...
Drinking alcohol isn’t good for you, but it is often a sociable activityVioleta Stoimenova/Getty Images Drinking even small amounts of alcohol reduces your life expectancy, rigorous studies show. Only those with serious flaws suggest that moderate drinking is beneficial. That’s...
monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images I wasn’t a sporty child. Neither of my parents did any exercise, and if they thought I was keeping fit at school, they were wrong. In hindsight, this was a big mistake, as it is becoming increasingly clear that...
As we prepare to settle down on our sofas to watch the latest generation of Olympians and Paralympians perform jaw-dropping feats of physical prowess, the irony won’t be lost on many of us – especially if we are watching with...
Lunar samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions are still enabling new discoveriesNASA/ESA The largest crater on the moon was probably created when a huge rock smashed into the surface 4.338 billion years ago, leaving behind a seething pool of magma....
Illustration of an animal in the genus Deinotherium, which went extinct after the evolution of humansHeinrich Harder/Florilegius/Alamy Human hunting was the key factor in the loss of dozens of elephant-like species in the past 2 million years, according to an...
To keep long-term moon residents safe from harmful radiation, lunar bases will need to be built several metres under the surface or inside caves or lava tubes Source link...
If the idea of exercise seems more attractive to you than the reality, you will identify with Jessica Howard. She had always nurtured the vague intention of running a marathon, but had struggled to get off the sofa. “I didn’t...
A section of a mouse brain viewed on a slideStu Gray / Alamy A newly identified brain pathway in mice could explain why placebos, or interventions designed to have no therapeutic effect, still relieve pain. Developing drugs that target this...
