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....
Drug overdose deaths have soared in North America over the past two decadesVictor Moussa / Alamy A pacemaker-like device that is implanted under the skin and automatically releases an antidote when it detects an opioid overdose could save lives,...
Pluto is a dwarf planetNASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute A mathematical formula to determine whether objects in space should be classed as a planet could make it easier to identify objects around other stars – but it...
