Coal plants and wind turbines coexist rather than replace each other in Westphalia, Germanymauritius images GmbH / Alamy More and More and MoreJean-Baptiste Fressoz (Allen Lane) The drive towards decarbonisation and the search for alternative, less-polluting sources of energy vex...
Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous place to be during pregnancy Source link...
Oil and water are difficult to separate without leaving some impuritiesAbaca Press/Alamy Mixtures of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping them into thin channels between semipermeable membranes, paving the way to cheaper and cleaner ways to deal...
Hairy animals including mice and dogs shake themselves dryatikinka2/Getty Images If you have ever been close to a dog after it has gone for a swim, you have probably been sprayed with water flinging from its fur. We now know...
An island of floating brown Sargassum seaweedAndrey Nekrasov/Alamy The big question, in the mid-21st century, wasn’t how to transition away from fossil fuels – that process became self-propelling as renewable energy became ever cheaper – but how to get carbon...
We are living in a vaccine-hesitant moment, with conspiracy theories thriving on social media. We need to push back, says Simon Williams Source link...
Roger Penrose, at the Institute of Science and Technology, AustriaAPA-PictureDesk/Alamy The Impossible ManPatchen Barss (Atlantic Books (UK, 14 November); Basic Books (US, 12 November)) Many people still believe (and many scientists tell themselves) that genius is a solitary affair, that...
Plaster casts of people who died in Pompeii. DNA tests show the adult on the right was a male unrelated to the small child on his lap.Archeological Park of Pompei Pompeii’s plaster cast human figures aren’t who they were assumed...
Topographical map of Mars showing Utopia Planitia, which may once have been an oceanU.S. Geological Survey A possible ancient shoreline has been found in the region of Mars explored by the Chinese rover Zhurong, providing further evidence that an ocean...
Elon Musk boards his private jet in Beijing in 2023JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images Flights taken on private jets should be subject to a carbon tax to curb the runaway growth in carbon emissions from the sector, researchers have said....
