Construction at a controversial dam complex in the Amazon basinMario Tama/Getty Images The area of land and water with formal protections for biodiversity has grown by less than 0.5 per cent since 2020, leaving the world far short of its...
October 28, 20243 min readWildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More DamageA small number of fast-moving wildfires cause almost all the property damage by forcing firefighters to focus on saving livesBy Avery Ellfeldt & E&E NewsVicki Matthews, a 23-year resident...
Illustration of a protein from a single-celled organism called Haloferax volcaniiFRANCISCO J. ENGUITA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Compressing a type of single-celled microorganism makes it develop into a multicellular tissue-like structure with different cell types. This suggests that pressure can help drive...
For nervous newbie gardeners, starting out with a single plant in a small pot is pitched as an easy win by the horticultural industry. James Wong explains why it isn't Source link...
In the post-collapse outback of Juice, people live partly undergroundAndrew Merry/Getty Images JuiceTim Winton (Picador) The latest novel by Tim Winton (twice shortlisted for the Booker prize) is Juice, and it begins in a deceptively familiar, even clichéd fashion. A...
Blades and other artefacts were traded across France during the Stone AgeJacques Descloitres/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team Around 7000 years ago, long knives, bracelets and other stone goods fashioned by skilled Parisian crafters were reaching people hundreds of kilometres away,...
October 26, 20245 min readShaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Robert Roberson Still on Death Row?Convicted of a crime that never happened, Roberson’s case is a prime example of how the U.S. legal system often fails to recognize...
The complete skeletal remains of the “Well Man”Age Hojem, NTNU University Museum A Norwegian saga written more than 800 years ago describes how a dead man was thrown into a castle well – and now, researchers believe they have identified...
The Ingenuity Mars helicopter, the predecessor to ChopperNASA/JPL-Caltech NASA is working on plans to send another helicopter to Mars. The craft would land itself after screaming into the planet’s atmosphere at speed, before covering several kilometres a day while carrying...
Scams can fool AI modelsWong Yu Liang/Getty Images The large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots are increasingly being used in attempts to scam humans – but they are susceptible to being scammed themselves. Udari Madhushani Sehwag at JP Morgan...
