The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.We’re increasingly aware of how misinformation can influence elections. About 73% of Americans report seeing misleading election news, and about half struggle to discern...
Firefighters work to control a blaze in California in JulyABACA/Shutterstock 2024 is now almost certain to become the first year on record when average temperatures exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, breaching the threshold set by the Paris Agreement. “At this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIKS6pXvays Experiments with vampire bats running on treadmills have revealed they have a highly unusual method of getting energy from protein, due to their specialised diet. Most mammals get the bulk of their energy for movement from fats and stored...
The new supercapacitor could be assembled from Martian materialsNASA When pushed into the smallest of cracks, water can be used in unexpected ways. A new battery-like device that relies on tiny amounts of water confined within layers of clay could eventually...
A small world in the outer solar system appears to have volcanic activity possibly spurred by liquid water Source link...
There are few things more irritating in everyday life than getting something stuck between your teeth. Thankfully, we can reach for a toothpick – and it seems our ancient ancestors did the same. In fact, a fragment of a 1.2-million-year-old...
Breast cancer cellsConnect Images / Alamy The number of cancer deaths worldwide is expected to nearly double by 2050, largely due to increases in low and middle-income countries. Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia made the discovery by...
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...
