Icebergs floating in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in GreenlandShutterstock/Keith Levit Thousands of lakes dot Greenland’s coast, their waters held back by walls of ice. But sometimes, the meltwater can surge through and spill into the sea. The first survey of...
Reanimating the dead to digital “life” raises tricky ethical questionsKonrad Waldmann/Dogwoof Films Eternal YouHans Block and Moritz RiesewieckSelected cinemas, UK and Ireland WOULD you want to talk to a dead loved one? The new film Eternal You explores “grief technologies”...
Shutterstock/Brent Hofacker I recently watched the romantic drama The Taste of Things, in which there is much ado about a baked Alaska. This delicacy consists of sponge cake topped with a dome of ice cream, all of which is slathered...
Chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest in UgandaCatherine Hobaiter Chimpanzees trade gestures at a rapid pace when socialising, similar to the rate at which humans engage in a back-and-forth conversation. Researchers made the discovery by analysing five wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)...
A nodule from the seabed being tested in a labCamille Bridgewater (2024) Metallic nodules scattered across the seabed in the Indian and Pacific oceans are a source of oxygen for nearby marine life – a finding that could upend our...
Watching an athlete at their peak is thrilling. Fulfilling one’s own athletic potential, not so much. Getting fit is hard and painful – or so we assume. But that isn’t necessarily the case. In fact, research shows that anyone just starting to exercise...
AI could help predict the weather more accuratelyRanimiro Lotufo Neto/Alamy Google researchers have built an artificial intelligence that they say can forecast weather and climate patterns just as well as current physics models while also requiring less computer power. Existing...
Your muscles, fat and other cells respond differently to exercise depending on the time of dayPanoramic Images/Alamy Usain Bolt smashed the 100-metre sprint record at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin in a floodlit stadium under an inky...
The band Pearl Jam playing in Barcelona earlier this monthKike Rincon/Europa Press via Getty Images The tempo of songs released by many popular musicians increases until they are in their early 30s and then steadily declines, falling below their teenage...
Meet the First U.S. Species to Go Extinct from Sea-Level RiseA tall cactus found only in Florida’s Key Largo is the U.S.’s first species to go extinct from sea-level riseBy Ayurella Horn-Muller & GristThe Key Largo tree cactus was initially...
