Withdrawn and anxious, the mice in John Cryan’s lab were behaving like you or I might if we had experienced workplace bullying and thought we might encounter the bully again. The good news, believe it or not, was that some...
Cultured meat, with added flavourYonsei University Lab-grown meat could get a flavour boost thanks to aromatic chemicals that activate when cooked, releasing a meaty smell – or if you prefer, that of coffee or potatoes. Meat grown from cultured cells...
Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether Sahelanthropus, a hominin that lived about 7 million years ago, was one of the first bipedal apes Source link...
Italian firm Energy Dome is building a "CO2 battery" in Sardinia that will store excess power from renewables and release it back to the grid when needed Source link...
Spreading rock dust on fields can sequester carbon and reduce nitrous oxide emissionsSO-Photography/Alamy Stock Photo Spreading crushed basalt on cropland and using special fertilisers that stop nitrogen loss could cut global agricultural emissions of a potent planet-warming gas by 25...
Researchers have been using weather balloons and other technology to map heat in ArizonaMeghan Finnerty/Arizona State University For the past month, two trucks outfitted with weather sensors, lasers and balloons have roamed Arizona’s scorching cities measuring the heat in extraordinary...
Whale remains being eaten by a tiger shark and other scavengers on the seabedLaura Gourgas Computer models could help predict the drift of dead whales so authorities can safely let their remains decompose naturally in the ocean. Dead whales attract...
The culture that built Stonehenge suffered a mysterious population declineWirestock, Inc./Alamy The Neolithic culture in Europe that produced megastructures such as Stonehenge went into a major decline around 5400 years ago. Now we have the best evidence yet that this...
We may be closer to understanding one of the mysteries of breastfeedingSvetlana Repnitskaya/Getty Images A newly discovered hormone in mice may solve the long-standing mystery of how adult bones stay strong during the stress of breastfeeding. The finding could lead...
We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it typically conjures images from the...
