The winning entry, “Calcium rainbow”Charlotte Buckley, University of Strathclyde, British Heart Foundation – Reflections of Research The muscle cells lining an artery resemble a stained glass window in this image, the winner of the British Heart Foundation’s annual Reflections of...
November 4, 20244 min readThe Myth that Musicians Die at 27 Shows How Superstitions Are Made Famous people who die at 27, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse, get even more famous because of the mythology surrounding...
November 5, 20242 min readThese Bird Nests Show Signs of an Architectural ‘Culture’Culture may play a role in how birds build collectively in the Kalahari DesertBy Gennaro TommaWhite-browed Sparrow-Weaver nests and roosts. Wolfgang Kaehler/Alamy Stock PhotoFrom long and winding migration...
A cylinder seal and its design imprinted onto clayFranck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) The world’s oldest known writing system may have had its origins in the imagery on decorated cylinders used to denote ownership. Some of the...
Police stand guard in front of a hotel a day ahead of the COP16 United Nations biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia, on 19 OctoberFernando Vergara/AP/Alamy Biodiversity loss is a crisis – and it is now clearer than ever that the...
Diffuse gas particles can behave in a way that contradicts a fundamental law of physicsShutterstock / North10 Heat always spontaneously flows from a hotter place to a colder one – so says the second law of thermodynamics. But within an...
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...
November 4, 20245 min readThe Law Must Respond when Science ChangesWhat was once fair under the law may become unfair when science changes. The law must react to uphold due processBy David Faigman & Jeff KukuckaLos Angeles County District Attorney...
CLIMATEWIRE | ON NAVAJO LAND, Arizona — It was a solar panel array that finally gave Norma Toledo a place to call home.For nights at a time this year, Toledo slept outside a Walmart in the cab of her Toyota...
Whether you are roasting a chicken in the oven, browning onions in a frying pan or choosing a spread for your toast, oils are at the heart of our culinary activity. We have a dizzying array of choice. From sunflower...
