Savor’s synthetic butterSavor A new type of dietary fat that doesn’t require animals or large areas of land to produce could soon be on sale in the US as researchers and entrepreneurs race to develop the first “synthetic” foodstuffs. US...
Snippets of self-replicating code compete for space in a virtual environmentGoogle A self-replicating form of artificial life has arisen from a digital “primordial soup” of random data, despite a lack of explicit rules or goals to encourage such behaviour. Researchers...
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the laws of physics to...
Withdrawn and anxious, the mice in John Cryan’s lab were behaving like you or I might if we had experienced workplace bullying and thought we might encounter the bully again. The good news, believe it or not, was that some...
Cultured meat, with added flavourYonsei University Lab-grown meat could get a flavour boost thanks to aromatic chemicals that activate when cooked, releasing a meaty smell – or if you prefer, that of coffee or potatoes. Meat grown from cultured cells...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
