Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, IndonesiaAliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy A common sunscreen ingredient, zinc nanoparticles, may help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common problem under climate change. Zinc is known to play an important role in plant...
Fibres from wet wipes can get into fertilisers if they are flushed down the toiletLinda Kennedy/Alamy Natural fibres that are increasingly being used in wet wipes may actually do more harm to the environment than the synthetic ones they are...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDF51jLP4Q A rapid form of 3D printing that uses sound and light could one day produce copies of human organs made from a person’s own cells, allowing for a range of drug tests. Traditional 3D printers build from a hard...
The winning entry, “Calcium rainbow”Charlotte Buckley, University of Strathclyde, British Heart Foundation – Reflections of Research The muscle cells lining an artery resemble a stained glass window in this image, the winner of the British Heart Foundation’s annual Reflections of...
November 4, 20244 min readThe Myth that Musicians Die at 27 Shows How Superstitions Are Made Famous people who die at 27, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse, get even more famous because of the mythology surrounding...
November 5, 20242 min readThese Bird Nests Show Signs of an Architectural ‘Culture’Culture may play a role in how birds build collectively in the Kalahari DesertBy Gennaro TommaWhite-browed Sparrow-Weaver nests and roosts. Wolfgang Kaehler/Alamy Stock PhotoFrom long and winding migration...
A cylinder seal and its design imprinted onto clayFranck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) The world’s oldest known writing system may have had its origins in the imagery on decorated cylinders used to denote ownership. Some of the...
Police stand guard in front of a hotel a day ahead of the COP16 United Nations biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia, on 19 OctoberFernando Vergara/AP/Alamy Biodiversity loss is a crisis – and it is now clearer than ever that the...
Diffuse gas particles can behave in a way that contradicts a fundamental law of physicsShutterstock / North10 Heat always spontaneously flows from a hotter place to a colder one – so says the second law of thermodynamics. But within an...
Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, IndonesiaAliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy A common sunscreen ingredient, zinc nanoparticles, may help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common problem under climate change. Zinc is known to play an important role in plant...
