Astrophysics

Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution

Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution

SIN Jun 21, 2024 0 4

An aerial survey of Los Angeles reveals that high temperatures cause plants to e...

Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties

Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicina...

SIN Jun 21, 2024 0 2

Chimpanzees with wounds or gut infections seem to add unusual plants to their di...

Microphone made of atom-thick graphene could be used in smartphones

Microphone made of atom-thick graphene could be used in...

SIN Jun 21, 2024 0 7

Reducing the size of the microphone in electronic devices would allow manufactur...

Watch leeches jump by coiling their bodies like cobras

Watch leeches jump by coiling their bodies like cobras

SIN Jun 20, 2024 0 2

Researchers have confirmed a centuries-old rumour that leeches can jump, which t...

Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live forever?

Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and...

SIN Jun 20, 2024 0 2

In this week's Future Chronicles column, which explores an imagined history of f...

Triceratops relative had the weirdest horns ever seen on a dinosaur

Triceratops relative had the weirdest horns ever seen o...

SIN Jun 20, 2024 0 2

A new species of dinosaur discovered in Montana and related to Triceratops had o...

Walking helps keep people free of lower back pain for longer

Walking helps keep people free of lower back pain for l...

SIN Jun 20, 2024 0 4

People who regularly have lower back pain go longer without the discomfort if th...

Saturn's moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion from methane seas

Saturn's moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion fro...

SIN Jun 20, 2024 0 2

Saturn’s moon Titan has coastlines matching ones on Earth that have been carved ...

Phased introductions to smartphones will help kids more than bans

Phased introductions to smartphones will help kids more...

SIN Jun 20, 2024 0 3

Creating "walled gardens", much like TV channels do, would provide children bett...

Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its length

Glassy gel is hard as plastic and stretches 7 times its...

SIN Jun 19, 2024 0 3

A material made of liquid salt mixed with polymers is extremely stretchy but sti...

We finally know why some people seem immune to catching covid-19

We finally know why some people seem immune to catching...

SIN Jun 19, 2024 0 2

Unique cell responses mean some people may be immune to catching the coronavirus...

Rare corpse flower that stinks of rotting flesh blooms at Kew Gardens

Rare corpse flower that stinks of rotting flesh blooms ...

SIN Jun 19, 2024 0 2

A giant flower, one of the smelliest in the world, is currently blooming at the ...

Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally safe to use again

Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally safe...

SIN Jun 19, 2024 0 3

Radiation surveys suggest that it is now safe to grow food on farmland that has ...

Why herbs evolved to smell and taste so delicious

Why herbs evolved to smell and taste so delicious

SIN Jun 19, 2024 0 5

Humans may have shaped the development of aromatic herbs like lavender and mint,...

Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings

Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings

SIN Jun 19, 2024 0 3

The chemical composition of Pluto and Triton suggests they originated in the sam...

Driverless cars are mostly safer than humans – but worse at turns

Driverless cars are mostly safer than humans – but wors...

SIN Jun 18, 2024 0 4

Driverless cars seem to have fewer accidents than human drivers under routine co...

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