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...
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Withdrawn and anxious, the mice in John Cryan’s lab were behaving like you or I might if we had experienced workplace bullying and thought we might encounter the bully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...
