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Science News Briefs from around the World: July/August 2023

Science News Briefs from around the World: July/August ...

SIN Jun 20, 2023 0 5

Unlikely pollinators in Brazil, climate-resilient coffee in Uganda, credible cry...

Solar-powered fuel cell recycles plastic waste and carbon dioxide

Solar-powered fuel cell recycles plastic waste and carb...

SIN Jun 19, 2023 0 23

By combining a solar fuel cell that converts carbon dioxide into fuel with a pla...

Ancient reptiles' long necks made them vulnerable to decapitation

Ancient reptiles' long necks made them vulnerable to de...

SIN Jun 19, 2023 0 5

Extremely long necks probably helped ancient marine reptiles ambush prey in murk...

Could Endometriosis Be Caused by Bacteria? Study Offers Fresh Clues

Could Endometriosis Be Caused by Bacteria? Study Offers...

SIN Jun 19, 2023 0 5

A link between endometriosis and bacterial infection suggests a potential way to...

We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System

We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System

SIN Jun 19, 2023 0 3

New work suggests four distinct star system types—and finds our own in the rares...

UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth

UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine hea...

SIN Jun 19, 2023 0 4

Waters around the UK and Ireland have been classified as experiencing a Category...

Quantum Light Experiment Proves Photosynthesis Starts with a Single Photon

Quantum Light Experiment Proves Photosynthesis Starts w...

SIN Jun 19, 2023 0 32

Scientists have used quantum technology to track individual particles of light a...

Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a pure element

Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a...

SIN Jun 19, 2023 0 28

Two independent teams of researchers found that putting the silvery metal scandi...

When a Wildfire Burns a City Built for Extracting Oil

When a Wildfire Burns a City Built for Extracting Oil

SIN Jun 18, 2023 0 4

A wildfire rages against the Alberta tar sands, aliens induce existential crises...

Physicists Make Matter out of Light to Find Quantum Singularities

Physicists Make Matter out of Light to Find Quantum Sin...

SIN Jun 18, 2023 0 27

Experiments that imitate solid materials with light waves reveal the quantum bas...

How Greyhound Racing Drove the Evolution of a Superparasite

How Greyhound Racing Drove the Evolution of a Superpara...

SIN Jun 18, 2023 0 30

The greyhound racing industry has been implicated in the rise of drug resistance...

Why Dads and Their Babies Need to Go Skin-to-Skin

Why Dads and Their Babies Need to Go Skin-to-Skin

SIN Jun 18, 2023 0 3

Fathers and nonbirthing parents benefit from skin-to-skin contact with their new...

A star has been eating an orbiting planet for 85 years

A star has been eating an orbiting planet for 85 years

SIN Jun 18, 2023 0 22

A distant star called FU Orionis has been shining extraordinarily bright for the...

UK river pollution monitoring is 50 years out of date, say researchers

UK river pollution monitoring is 50 years out of date, ...

SIN Jun 18, 2023 0 4

Levels of pollutants in the UK's rivers are tested by random sampling, a method ...

How you can help save Britain's rivers by becoming a citizen scientist

How you can help save Britain's rivers by becoming a ci...

SIN Jun 18, 2023 0 3

As part of New Scientist's Save Britain's Rivers campaign, we've rounded up the ...

Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to Earth, and It's Totally Awesome

Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to E...

SIN Jun 17, 2023 0 6

The OSIRIS-REx mission will return samples from the asteroid Bennu that could re...

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