Water-efficiency labels will be introduced in the UK for new toilets, taps, showers, dishwashers, washing machines and washer-dryers in the hope of creating water and energy bill savings Environment 2…
Indian jumping ant queens live nine times longer than worker females in the same colony, which may be due to insulin-blocking proteins they produce once they begin reproduction Life 1…
The company behind Facebook has created an AI that could one day be used to help nonverbal people better communicate Technology 1 September 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Are you thinking…
A zinc battery made using a compound from crab shells can be recharged at least 1000 times and can biodegrade or be recycled at the end of its life Technology…
A magnet made out of ytterbium atoms is only a billionth of a degree warmer than absolute zero. Understanding how it works could help physicists build high-temperature superconductors Physics 1…
Pheromones are often used by farmers for controlling pest insects but the chemical process for producing them is expensive. A method for making them using bioengineered oil plants could be…
The US Food and Drug Administration authorised the use of versions of Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccines that target both the original virus and two omicron subvariants Health 1 September…
A new artificial intelligence that monitors mice grimaces to score their pain from 0 to 8 may help researchers judge the effectiveness of a new pain-relieving treatment Health 1 September…
For the first time, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly captured an image of an exoplanet from space Space 1 September 2022 By Alex Wilkins The exoplanet…
Giving a TED talk wasn’t easy, but I wanted to make sure my audience came away with a better understanding of dark matter, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Humans | Columnist 31…