Most Pets Can’t Sweat: What You Can Do for Them in a Heat Wave
Panting, increased grooming, a dip in the lake. All of these measures are what pets use to cope with a prolonged heat spell. Animals have evolved their own methods to…
Radical lupus treatment uses CAR T-cell therapy developed for cancer
Five people with the autoimmune condition lupus are now in remission after receiving a version of CAR-T therapy, which was originally developed for cancer Health 15 September 2022 By Clare…
DNA clocks suggest ageing is pre-programmed in our cells
Looking at DNA in a tissue sample is now all you need to accurately work out the age of almost any mammal, and this reveals something fundamental about ageing Health…
Major fireball seen over UK was probably space junk returning to Earth
Planetary scientists are racing to establish the origin of a bright fireball seen over parts of the UK on 14 September – the evidence so far points to it being…
Stop calling it social media – these firms don’t care what we want
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and their ilk were meant to let us chat freely in a digital public square, but the firms running social media are just as corporate as old…
What’s the Science of Public Grief?
The death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96 has prompted an outpouring of emotion — in the United Kingdom and around the globe. Her close family and…
Scientists Can Now Monitor Thinning Sea Ice Year-Round
A new scientific method may allow researchers to keep better tabs on the melting Arctic. For the first time, scientists have devised a technique to monitor the thickness of Arctic…
The Oldest 3-D Heart from Our Vertebrate Ancestors Has Been Discovered
The oldest chambered hearts have been discovered in fossils from Western Australia. The two-chambered organs, which date back about 380 million years, are preserved within remarkable three-dimensional fossils of ancient,…
Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power
Archaeology has a representation problem. For most of the time that scholars have been probing the human past, they have focused mainly on the activities of men to the exclusion…
Does squishing invasive lanternflies really help stop their spread?
By Corryn Wetzel Several campaigns on the east coast of the US encourage people to squash the invasive spotted lanternfly on sight Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto/Shutterstock There is an invasive insect spreading…