When did human ancestors start walking on two legs?
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...
Year Archives: 2024
Giant dome filled with CO2 could store excess power from renewables
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...
Crushed rocks and fertiliser switches can cut nitrous oxide from farms
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...
Mobile weather labs map toll of extreme heat in scorching US cities
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...
Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?
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 plague may have wiped out most northern Europeans 5000 years ago
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...
A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may have been solved
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...
How a simple physics experiment could reveal dark matter hiding in an extra dimension
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...
Could we share dreams by synchronising REM sleep?
Time travelling to the middle of the 21st century, Rowan Hooper discovers scientists have developed a method of shared dreaming. Here's how it changes the world Source link...
Covid inquiry: why the UK was so ill prepared for the covid-19 pandemic
People demonstrating outside the venue for the UK Covid-19 Inquiry in London in October 2023ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images “The UK prepared for the wrong pandemic.” That is a key conclusion from the first part of a government inquiry examining...
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