Those living in Papua New Guinea’s highlands may benefit from having Denisovan DNAMichael Runkel/Danita Delimont/Getty Images/Gallo Images ROOTS People living in the highlands and lowlands of Papua New Guinea have different frequencies of several Denisovan genetic variants, which may help...
Pupil size can help diagnose conditions such as concussionIrina Shilnikova/Getty Images The size of our pupils fluctuates as we breathe. They are at their smallest as we start to breathe in, increase steadily to reach their largest size when we...
Not all diving boards obey the laws of thermodynamicsvm/Getty Images A microscopic version of a diving board has been driven to cheat the second law of thermodynamics 95 per cent of the time. The finding doesn’t challenge the validity of...
Visualisation of currents in the Atlantic OceanNASA The 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow may have taken some serious artistic licence with climate science, but it got one thing right. Climate change may indeed cause a collapse in global ocean...
We are living in the era of black hole photography. In 2019, the first picture taken of a black hole was released. Unsurprisingly, it was difficult to get – in fact, it required a telescope essentially the size of Earth....
An illustration of the proposed below-ground shape of Mare Tranquillitatis pit on the lunar surfaceWagner and Robinson There is probably a network of caves hidden just below the surface of the moon, and researchers may have finally found an access...
The activity within brain networks appears to differ between boys and girlsPeopleImages/Getty Images Artificial intelligence can differentiate between the brain patterns of boys and girls aged 9 to 10 years old according to their sex, and possibly their gender –...
Air traffic controllers can track transatlantic flights’ GPS problemsNATS Disruptions to GPS signals, which began near war zones in Europe and the Middle East, are now affecting the busiest oceanic airspace in the world. More than 1700 transatlantic flights cross...
Putting raindrops to work is an unusual ideaDerek Croucher / Alamy A generator that harvests the pitter-patter of raindrops can produce enough electricity to power LED lights, though it is unclear how practical it might be. Yonghui Zhang and colleagues...
A strain of bird flu has been circulating in dairy cows for almost five monthsLauren Justice/Bloomberg via Getty Images US health officials are struggling to monitor people who have been exposed to a bird flu virus circulating in dairy cows....
