Map showing the location where an asteroid’s fireball will be visible in SiberiaESA A dramatic but harmless spectacle will take place over Siberia today when an asteroid around 70 centimetres in diameter burns up in the atmosphere. The space rock...
It is rare that a drug becomes a household name and even rarer for one to become a superstar, but with its ability to grab headlines, Ozempic is the Taylor Swift of pharmaceuticals. So just what lies behind its star...
December 3, 20243 min readNectar-Eating Wolves May Be Pollinating FlowersThere are fewer than 500 Ethiopian wolves, and they may be the first large carnivore known to act as a pollinatorBy Meghan BartelsAn Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) feeding amongst the blooming...
People carrying out disinfection work at a market in Wuhan, where covid-19 is thought to have originated, in March 2020An Yuan/China News Service via Getty Images Five years ago, the covid-19 pandemic was getting under way – but we didn’t...
No part of our body is as perishable as the brain. Within minutes of losing its supply of blood and oxygen, our delicate neurological machinery begins to suffer irreversible damage. The brain is our most energy-greedy organ, and in the...
December 2, 20244 min readGlobal Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks FailA summit many hoped would yield a landmark treaty to tackle a global plastic pollution crisis ended in disappointment after oil- and gas-producing countries pushed back on limiting productionBy Leonie Cater,...
Some of Alan’s app users got answers to their medical queries from an AI chatbotminiseries/Getty Images A French health insurance company has tested its medical chatbot with hundreds of people, in the largest real-world trial of a medical AI of...
Broken eggshells around young plants … but will they stop the slugs?BIOSPHOTO/Alamy For as long as I have been gardening, there has been a tip I have come across at least once a week: the idea that a ring of...
Drilling for ice cores helps reveal the health of the AntarcticNerilie Abram If all our fear and uncertainty over climate change could be distilled into a single statistic, then arguably it was delivered to an emergency summit on the future...
Tattoos printed onto a person’s scalp can detect electrical activity in the brain and carry signals to a recording deviceNanshu Lu Analysing brainwaves could be made easier by printing a temporary tattoo onto a person’s head. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a...
