A hoard of Roman gold coins found below the floor of a Roman house in Corbridge, UKWorld History Archive/Alamy After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of...
A car kitted out with technology for gathering data on the condition of buildingsMadeleine Cuff UK city-dwellers may have spotted a strangely shaped car cruising around their neighbourhood earlier this year. It looks just like a Google Street View vehicle,...
Artist’s depiction of the Ariane 6 rocketESA-D. Ducros What is Ariane 6? Ariane 6 is the latest model in the Ariane line of rockets – Europe’s own satellite launchers. The project dates back to a proposal from 1973 and the...
Tests on lab-grown “mini-brains” show a one-off gene therapy treatment can prevent the formation of the tau tangles associated with several neurodegenerative conditions Source link...
Nobody doubts that Albert Einstein had a brilliant mind. But the Nobel prizewinner, famous for his theories of special and general relativity, wasn’t blessed with a big brain. “It was smaller than average,” says Jeremy DeSilva at Dartmouth College in...
Ultra-processed food is often high in fat, sugar and saltGMVozd/Getty Images Nutrition advice is often fickle. In the 1990s, nutritionists blamed fats for rising obesity rates. Then, carbohydrates became the culprit in the early 2000s. Now, the refrain is to...
Dingoes are found across most of the Australian continentDominic Jeanmaire/Getty Images/iStockphoto Analysis of ancient DNA from dingoes suggests that Australia’s native wild dogs arrived in two waves of migration between 3000 and 8000 years ago and show little evidence of...
The New York Stock Exchange on Wall StreetHans-Werner Rodrian / Alamy Cosmic ray particles capable of penetrating even the densest buildings or underground structures can provide an essentially foolproof timing system for synchronising high-frequency trades in the world’s international stock...
Self-cooling artificial turf was tested against ordinary fake grass at a test site in AmsterdamJoris Voeten An artificial sports pitch that absorbs rainwater and lets it evaporate on hot days stays much cooler than ordinary fake grass. The self-cooling turf...
The magnificent tree frog (Litoria splendida) is normally green, but this mutant is blueJ Barker/AWC A rare blue frog found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has stunned researchers, who say the unusual colouring is probably due to a...
