Combining data on pollution concentrations and whale feeding habits has revealed that filter-feeding whales could be ingesting huge levels of microplastics Environment 1 November 2022 By Madeleine Cuff A blue…
Mohamed Nasr, Egypt’s chief climate negotiator, tells New Scientist that COP27 will focus on making sure existing promises are kept, rather than extracting new pledges Environment 1 November 2022 By…
An AI has been used to train robot dogs to toss cups into a garbage can or wipe a whiteboard with an eraser while cutting out hand-coding, which makes them…
For hundreds of years it’s been known that a mysterious third note can be heard when playing two notes together on a violin – now we know why Physics 1…
A long-fingered lemur has been caught on camera picking its nose—and eating the slimy goods. The culprit was Kali, an aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) at the Duke Lemur Center who now…
The global climate summit that begins next week in Egypt won’t hinge on backroom discussions among negotiators. The spotlight instead will be trained on the avalanche of climate disasters that…
1972 Sunlight on Venus “Additional knowledge about the cloudy planet Venus has been gathered by the Russian space probe Venus 8, which made a soft landing in July. One of…
What color is a tree, or the sky, or a sunset? At first glance, the answers seem obvious. But it turns out there is plenty of variation in how people…
Since the US Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion, the number of abortions performed in the US has declined overall but increased in states where the procedure is still…
A malaria outbreak in Ethiopia earlier this year has been linked to an invasive species of mosquito that can persist throughout the dry season, complicating the fight to prevent the…