Scientists have optimised pistachio storageMilovan Radmanovac/Alamy Shelling your favourite snack nuts just got a lot easier: physicists have worked out the exact size of bowl to best fit discarded pistachio shells. Ruben Zakine and Michael Benzaquen at École Polytechnique in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejkYQ-SXgY The first-ever footage of a blue whale calf suckling, filmed by a snorkeller in East Timor in South-East Asia, has been released. “It is certainly not a newborn calf,” says Karen Edyvane at the Australian National University in Darwin, “but...
If London’s roofs were white, it would help keep the city cool in a heatwaveNagyxMe/Imago/Alamy Painting rooftops white or covering them with a reflective coating is the best way to reduce air temperature in a city like London during a...
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...
