The start-up Metalplant harvests nickel-accumulating flowersCourtesy of MetalPlant On a recent afternoon in northern Albania, workers gathered armfuls of freshly cut shrubs covered in yellow flowers, leaving them to dry in the sun like hay. But this was no ordinary...
Crushed chicken egg shells have been turned into a structure that supports bone growth in the laboratory Source link...
Jane Khomi/Moment RF/Getty Images Rosewater: Opening Day 2066 Now I’m at the Integrity Bank job for forty minutes before the anxieties kick in. It’s how I usually start my day. This time it’s because of a wedding and a final...
I’m about to lie to you. I’m going to tell you all the lofty reasons why I wrote my book Rosewater, like interrogating the usual setting of alien invasions in the Global North, and the loss of the colonial metaphor...
The ice was found in the Chamaeleon I Cloud, a star-forming regionNASA, ESA, K. Luhman and T. Esplin (Pennsylvania State Uni), et al./ESO/Gladys Kober/Catholic Uni of America Fluffy ice that could help create the molecular building blocks for life has...
If the universe is a game, then who’s playing it?Bruce Rolff/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas...
A player’s view of the video game Gran Turismo 7Sony Interactive Entertainment An artificial intelligence can beat the best human players at the racing video game Gran Turismo 7 using only the images and information that players can see. In...
A hoard of Roman gold coins found below the floor of a Roman house in Corbridge, UKWorld History Archive/Alamy After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of...
A car kitted out with technology for gathering data on the condition of buildingsMadeleine Cuff UK city-dwellers may have spotted a strangely shaped car cruising around their neighbourhood earlier this year. It looks just like a Google Street View vehicle,...
Artist’s depiction of the Ariane 6 rocketESA-D. Ducros What is Ariane 6? Ariane 6 is the latest model in the Ariane line of rockets – Europe’s own satellite launchers. The project dates back to a proposal from 1973 and the...
