Últimas Notícias - Ciência & tecnologia 06/12/2019 21:00:00 America seeks faster ways to launch military satellites If one gets destroyed, a replacement needs to be on its way soon Continue lendo... 06/12/2019 21:00:00 Some planks from ancient Rome started life in eastern France The tree rings in them tell their story Continue lendo... 06/12/2019 21:00:00 Malaria infections have stopped falling Fine-tuning prevention may help Continue lendo... 06/12/2019 21:00:00 The first computer chip with a trillion transistors It should speed up calculations for artificial intelligence Continue lendo... 06/12/2019 21:00:00 Even aggressive centipedes will co-operate if they have to Mothers of different species share nests in the rainforest Continue lendo... 06/12/2019 21:00:00 If aircraft can copy the way geese fly, they will save fuel One plane rides on another’s wake Continue lendo... 29/11/2019 21:00:00 Male nightingales spend the winter practising Rehearsing for Berkeley Square Continue lendo... 29/11/2019 21:00:00 Electrical energy can be captured as liquid air The result might give grid-scale batteries a run for their money Continue lendo... 28/11/2019 12:43:38 An emergency landing system that passengers can activate Pressing a panic button lands the plane at a nearby airfield Continue lendo... 28/11/2019 12:43:38 How ear bones evolved A change in chewing liberated jaw bones to do something else Continue lendo... 28/11/2019 12:43:38 Slowly, HIV is being beaten But the rich world must not turn its back on the problem Continue lendo... 27/11/2019 21:00:00 A new theory argues same-sex sexual behaviour is an evolutionary norm Unless it is essential to know a partner’s sex, why bother? Continue lendo... 22/11/2019 21:00:00 Virtual reality continues to make people sick And women more so than men Continue lendo... 22/11/2019 21:00:00 New ways to make molybdenum-99 A crucial short-lived isotope is in short supply Continue lendo... 22/11/2019 21:00:00 Fossil-fuel-producing countries say one thing and do another And the mismatch is huge Continue lendo... 21/11/2019 12:55:45 Solar-powered trains could make rail transport greener Solar panels are connected directly to the line Continue lendo... 21/11/2019 12:55:44 Nematode parasites kill a lot of sheep Breeding better animals might stop this Continue lendo... 14/11/2019 13:01:05 Giant 3D printers for making boats, bridges, buildings and rockets Printing bigger and faster Continue lendo... 14/11/2019 13:01:05 Sensors, data and the self-policing rugby match No more arguing about offside decisions and forward passes Continue lendo... 13/11/2019 21:00:00 How to forge rhinoceros horn A realistic knock-off may wreck the rhino-horn market Continue lendo... 07/11/2019 13:08:32 Modern genetics will improve health and usher in “designer” children It may also provoke an ethical storm Continue lendo... 31/10/2019 13:02:15 IBM challenges a recent result in quantum computing Technically, they are right. Practically, it makes little difference Continue lendo... 31/10/2019 13:02:15 A pair of Australian bridges try to cure concrete cancer Using composite reinforcing Continue lendo... 31/10/2019 13:02:15 The answer to livestock that burp methane may be seaweed But then you have to grow the seaweed Continue lendo... 31/10/2019 13:02:15 A tale of mistake and retraction shows that science works—eventually Kids from religious homes are not less generous than secular children Continue lendo... 30/10/2019 21:00:00 Where was Eden? Perhaps in a sun-baked salt plain in Botswana Mitochondrial Eve, an ancestor of all alive now, dwelt by a vanished lake Continue lendo... 25/10/2019 21:00:00 Why museums’ animal collections favour males They are showier, and more easily caught Continue lendo... 24/10/2019 11:55:50 Lithuanians are using software to fight back against fake news The country is besieged by Russian propaganda Continue lendo... 24/10/2019 11:55:50 Plantation owners profit by not persecuting primates Monkeys act as pest controllers who take their fees in fruit Continue lendo... 24/10/2019 11:55:50 Claims about a treatment for Alzheimer’s should be met with caution More trials would be a good idea Continue lendo... 23/10/2019 21:00:00 Migrants from coalfields take DNA as well as talent with them Educational achievement has a genetic component. Bad news for deprived areas Continue lendo... 18/10/2019 21:00:00 How to make use of all of a tree A giant Finnish timber mill explores sustainable forestry Continue lendo... 18/10/2019 21:00:00 How to reveal a country’s sense, over the years, of its own well-being Read its books. By computer Continue lendo... 18/10/2019 21:00:00 Trilobites marched across the seabed in single file They used long spines to stay in contact Continue lendo... 17/10/2019 12:02:54 In rats, cannabis during pregnancy rewires the brains of offspring Human mothers take note Continue lendo... 16/10/2019 21:00:00 To see off piranha this fish has strong armour The mighty pirarucu’s super-tough scales Continue lendo... 11/10/2019 21:00:00 Batteries, exoplanets, cosmology and cell biology win Nobel laurels And humanity is enriched in both body and spirit Continue lendo... 10/10/2019 11:46:21 How to defeat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis As with other conflicts, money is the sinews of the war on disease Continue lendo... 10/10/2019 11:46:21 How spider silk avoids hungry bacteria No antibiotics are involved Continue lendo... 08/10/2019 21:00:00 Nobel prize for chemistry: the lithium-ion battery An overdue award for a ubiquitous invention Continue lendo... 07/10/2019 21:00:00 Nobel prize for physics: exoplanets and cosmology Two of this year’s winners discovered a planet around another star. The third turned cosmology into a science Continue lendo... 06/10/2019 21:00:00 Nobel prize for medicine: how oxygen affects cells This year’s winners helped explain oxygen-sensitive processes and their effect on cancers, heart attacks and strokes Continue lendo... 04/10/2019 21:00:00 Nanotube forests that are darker than night The future of super-black coatings looks, as it were, bright Continue lendo... 04/10/2019 21:00:00 SpaceX’s Starship is a new kind of rocket, in every sense And it may beat its government rival into space Continue lendo... 03/10/2019 11:37:25 A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants RISC-V is an alternative to proprietary designs Continue lendo... 03/10/2019 11:37:25 Some lizards swim through sand as though it were water. Why? One reason, it turns out, is to keep parasites down Continue lendo... 03/10/2019 11:37:25 Inaccessible Island’s rubbish problem has been bottling up for years Littering ship captains are trashing the tiny isle Continue lendo... 26/09/2019 11:39:58 A quest to drill the oldest ice core in Antarctica is beginning Measuring the air within it will aid understanding of the climate Continue lendo... 26/09/2019 11:39:58 Robots’ abilities to recognise and manipulate things are improving And they have an intuitive sense of physics Continue lendo... 26/09/2019 11:39:58 In genetic disease, who has the right to know—or not know—what? Cases in Britain and Germany are at odds with each other Continue lendo... 26/09/2019 11:39:58 Lilies tweek their fruit and seeds to ensure their propagation Spit it out Continue lendo... 26/09/2019 11:39:58 An amateur astronomer spots a second interstellar visitor The solar system welcomes comet Borisov Continue lendo... 25/09/2019 21:00:00 Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one A leaked paper has given the game away Continue lendo... 20/09/2019 21:00:00 Predicting the climatic future is riddled with uncertainty But researchers are doing the best they can Continue lendo... 20/09/2019 21:00:00 Ancient climates are written in stone Climate issue: Travertine, a type of limestone, records the ice ages Continue lendo... 13/09/2019 21:00:00 An exoplanet in a star’s Goldilocks zone is confirmed to have water Another tick in the box for habitability Continue lendo... 12/09/2019 11:59:44 Flying taxis are taking off to whisk people around cities But regulatory hurdles still remain Continue lendo... 12/09/2019 11:59:44 The sound of sand reveals its source It’s all about the ancient shellfish Continue lendo... 12/09/2019 11:59:44 Uncovering how the body ages is leading to drugs to reverse it Young blood not required Continue lendo... 12/09/2019 11:59:44 Neanderthals had a propensity for earache, nudging them to their doom A new analysis of their skulls points to an anatomical problem Continue lendo... 06/09/2019 21:00:00 Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of war A new type of arms race could be on the cards Continue lendo... 06/09/2019 21:00:00 Bangalore, we have a problem India’s effort to land on the Moon may be stillborn Continue lendo... 30/08/2019 21:00:00 New ways to make vertical farming stack up Cultivating fresh produce in an artificial environment is getting cheaper Continue lendo... 30/08/2019 21:00:00 A scientific study has established that there is no “gay gene” But biology does in part determine sexual orientation Continue lendo... 29/08/2019 11:45:35 Cerebral organoids are becoming more brainlike Like real brains, they show signs of synchronous electrical activity Continue lendo... 21/08/2019 21:00:00 Gravitational astronomy proves its maturity With the sighting of a merger between a black hole and a neutron star Continue lendo... 16/08/2019 21:00:00 Leopard seals share their suppers Bad news if you are a penguin Continue lendo... 15/08/2019 12:08:38 As face-recognition technology spreads, so do ideas for subverting it They work because machine vision and human vision are different Continue lendo... 15/08/2019 12:08:38 An accident in Russia points to the risks of atomic aviation Chernobyl with wings Continue lendo... 14/08/2019 21:00:00 Two treatments for Ebola emerge from a clinical trial in Africa Both rely on special antibodies Continue lendo... 09/08/2019 21:00:00 No one has yet been killed by re-entering space junk Engineers are working hard to keep it that way Continue lendo... 09/08/2019 21:00:00 Gloom from the climate-change front line But not complete doom, if people behave sensibly Continue lendo... 08/08/2019 11:45:18 A tale of elephants, ants, trees and fire shows how complex nature is Ecological links are not always predictable Continue lendo... 02/08/2019 21:00:00 Astronomers are probing faraway planets with greater sophistication And a new science is emerging Continue lendo... 01/08/2019 11:46:45 Who did the Maya sacrifice? Anyone and everyone Continue lendo... 01/08/2019 11:46:45 How to wring power from the night air Mimic the way that lightning happens Continue lendo... 25/07/2019 12:07:39 Tree stumps can live on indefinitely... ...with a little help from their friends Continue lendo... 25/07/2019 12:07:39 How to make a flat lens Cover its surface with tiny antennae Continue lendo... 24/07/2019 21:00:00 Greenhouse-gas emissions are increasing the frequency of heatwaves And it will get worse in future Continue lendo... 20/07/2019 21:00:00 Heatwaves are more dangerous in cities Pavement and plants can counter the urban heat-island effect Continue lendo... 18/07/2019 11:52:25 Alan Turing, a computing pioneer, will feature on Britain’s £50 notes And about time, too Continue lendo... 17/07/2019 21:00:00 Is it time to go back to the Moon? Probably, yes Continue lendo... 17/07/2019 21:00:00 Elon Musk wants to link brains directly to machines A device worn behind the ear might send your thoughts to your devices Continue lendo... 11/07/2019 11:51:14 A new type of engine for electric cars Putting motors in wheels lightens vehicles and shrinks batteries Continue lendo... 11/07/2019 11:51:14 A team of chemists are searching for a new red pigment Ten years ago they found the first new blue for two centuries Continue lendo... 11/07/2019 11:51:14 Contrary to the fears of some, penguins and people do mix At least, that is what an analysis of their guano suggests Continue lendo... 10/07/2019 21:00:00 The oldest known Homo sapiens outside Africa was Greek The skull was dug up in the 1970s, but only now identified Continue lendo... 05/07/2019 21:00:00 Beetles and flies are becoming part of the agricultural food chain They are raised in farms and fed to fish Continue lendo... 05/07/2019 21:00:00 How to make a better raincoat with tiny “water bowls” Superhydrophobic shapes for repelling water from surfaces Continue lendo... 05/07/2019 21:00:00 Armed with smartphones, Colombians are taking on the local mozzies Mosquito vetting Continue lendo... 05/07/2019 21:00:00 Buried metal artefacts gather stories on their surfaces The result is a chemical biography of the object Continue lendo... 04/07/2019 11:58:58 Japan resumes commercial whaling One down, 226 to go Continue lendo... 28/06/2019 21:00:00 In fighting cancer, look to what other animals do Big species have fewer tumours than small ones Continue lendo... 28/06/2019 21:00:00 Vegetarian crocodiles once roamed the world A lesson in not stereotyping on the basis of modern examples Continue lendo... 28/06/2019 21:00:00 Hybrid airliners could come to dominate the skies They use both orthodox engines and electric motors in an optimum mix Continue lendo... 26/06/2019 21:00:00 Capuchin monkeys have been using stone tools for around 3,000 years Bang the rocks together, guys Continue lendo... 21/06/2019 21:00:00 The bioluminescence people find so attractive is a defence mechanism It drives away the predators of microscopic plankton Continue lendo... 21/06/2019 21:00:00 People are more honest than they think they are More money in a lost wallet means it is more likely to be returned Continue lendo... 21/06/2019 21:00:00 Stopping bees swapping hives keeps disease down and productivity up The probable reason is that they don’t then spread mites Continue lendo... 21/06/2019 21:00:00 Greenland’s ice sheet is melting unusually fast That may raise the sea level by an extra millimetre this year Continue lendo...
06/12/2019 21:00:00 America seeks faster ways to launch military satellites If one gets destroyed, a replacement needs to be on its way soon Continue lendo...
06/12/2019 21:00:00 Some planks from ancient Rome started life in eastern France The tree rings in them tell their story Continue lendo...
06/12/2019 21:00:00 Malaria infections have stopped falling Fine-tuning prevention may help Continue lendo...
06/12/2019 21:00:00 The first computer chip with a trillion transistors It should speed up calculations for artificial intelligence Continue lendo...
06/12/2019 21:00:00 Even aggressive centipedes will co-operate if they have to Mothers of different species share nests in the rainforest Continue lendo...
06/12/2019 21:00:00 If aircraft can copy the way geese fly, they will save fuel One plane rides on another’s wake Continue lendo...
29/11/2019 21:00:00 Male nightingales spend the winter practising Rehearsing for Berkeley Square Continue lendo...
29/11/2019 21:00:00 Electrical energy can be captured as liquid air The result might give grid-scale batteries a run for their money Continue lendo...
28/11/2019 12:43:38 An emergency landing system that passengers can activate Pressing a panic button lands the plane at a nearby airfield Continue lendo...
28/11/2019 12:43:38 How ear bones evolved A change in chewing liberated jaw bones to do something else Continue lendo...
28/11/2019 12:43:38 Slowly, HIV is being beaten But the rich world must not turn its back on the problem Continue lendo...
27/11/2019 21:00:00 A new theory argues same-sex sexual behaviour is an evolutionary norm Unless it is essential to know a partner’s sex, why bother? Continue lendo...
22/11/2019 21:00:00 Virtual reality continues to make people sick And women more so than men Continue lendo...
22/11/2019 21:00:00 New ways to make molybdenum-99 A crucial short-lived isotope is in short supply Continue lendo...
22/11/2019 21:00:00 Fossil-fuel-producing countries say one thing and do another And the mismatch is huge Continue lendo...
21/11/2019 12:55:45 Solar-powered trains could make rail transport greener Solar panels are connected directly to the line Continue lendo...
21/11/2019 12:55:44 Nematode parasites kill a lot of sheep Breeding better animals might stop this Continue lendo...
14/11/2019 13:01:05 Giant 3D printers for making boats, bridges, buildings and rockets Printing bigger and faster Continue lendo...
14/11/2019 13:01:05 Sensors, data and the self-policing rugby match No more arguing about offside decisions and forward passes Continue lendo...
13/11/2019 21:00:00 How to forge rhinoceros horn A realistic knock-off may wreck the rhino-horn market Continue lendo...
07/11/2019 13:08:32 Modern genetics will improve health and usher in “designer” children It may also provoke an ethical storm Continue lendo...
31/10/2019 13:02:15 IBM challenges a recent result in quantum computing Technically, they are right. Practically, it makes little difference Continue lendo...
31/10/2019 13:02:15 A pair of Australian bridges try to cure concrete cancer Using composite reinforcing Continue lendo...
31/10/2019 13:02:15 The answer to livestock that burp methane may be seaweed But then you have to grow the seaweed Continue lendo...
31/10/2019 13:02:15 A tale of mistake and retraction shows that science works—eventually Kids from religious homes are not less generous than secular children Continue lendo...
30/10/2019 21:00:00 Where was Eden? Perhaps in a sun-baked salt plain in Botswana Mitochondrial Eve, an ancestor of all alive now, dwelt by a vanished lake Continue lendo...
25/10/2019 21:00:00 Why museums’ animal collections favour males They are showier, and more easily caught Continue lendo...
24/10/2019 11:55:50 Lithuanians are using software to fight back against fake news The country is besieged by Russian propaganda Continue lendo...
24/10/2019 11:55:50 Plantation owners profit by not persecuting primates Monkeys act as pest controllers who take their fees in fruit Continue lendo...
24/10/2019 11:55:50 Claims about a treatment for Alzheimer’s should be met with caution More trials would be a good idea Continue lendo...
23/10/2019 21:00:00 Migrants from coalfields take DNA as well as talent with them Educational achievement has a genetic component. Bad news for deprived areas Continue lendo...
18/10/2019 21:00:00 How to make use of all of a tree A giant Finnish timber mill explores sustainable forestry Continue lendo...
18/10/2019 21:00:00 How to reveal a country’s sense, over the years, of its own well-being Read its books. By computer Continue lendo...
18/10/2019 21:00:00 Trilobites marched across the seabed in single file They used long spines to stay in contact Continue lendo...
17/10/2019 12:02:54 In rats, cannabis during pregnancy rewires the brains of offspring Human mothers take note Continue lendo...
16/10/2019 21:00:00 To see off piranha this fish has strong armour The mighty pirarucu’s super-tough scales Continue lendo...
11/10/2019 21:00:00 Batteries, exoplanets, cosmology and cell biology win Nobel laurels And humanity is enriched in both body and spirit Continue lendo...
10/10/2019 11:46:21 How to defeat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis As with other conflicts, money is the sinews of the war on disease Continue lendo...
10/10/2019 11:46:21 How spider silk avoids hungry bacteria No antibiotics are involved Continue lendo...
08/10/2019 21:00:00 Nobel prize for chemistry: the lithium-ion battery An overdue award for a ubiquitous invention Continue lendo...
07/10/2019 21:00:00 Nobel prize for physics: exoplanets and cosmology Two of this year’s winners discovered a planet around another star. The third turned cosmology into a science Continue lendo...
06/10/2019 21:00:00 Nobel prize for medicine: how oxygen affects cells This year’s winners helped explain oxygen-sensitive processes and their effect on cancers, heart attacks and strokes Continue lendo...
04/10/2019 21:00:00 Nanotube forests that are darker than night The future of super-black coatings looks, as it were, bright Continue lendo...
04/10/2019 21:00:00 SpaceX’s Starship is a new kind of rocket, in every sense And it may beat its government rival into space Continue lendo...
03/10/2019 11:37:25 A new blueprint for microprocessors challenges the industry’s giants RISC-V is an alternative to proprietary designs Continue lendo...
03/10/2019 11:37:25 Some lizards swim through sand as though it were water. Why? One reason, it turns out, is to keep parasites down Continue lendo...
03/10/2019 11:37:25 Inaccessible Island’s rubbish problem has been bottling up for years Littering ship captains are trashing the tiny isle Continue lendo...
26/09/2019 11:39:58 A quest to drill the oldest ice core in Antarctica is beginning Measuring the air within it will aid understanding of the climate Continue lendo...
26/09/2019 11:39:58 Robots’ abilities to recognise and manipulate things are improving And they have an intuitive sense of physics Continue lendo...
26/09/2019 11:39:58 In genetic disease, who has the right to know—or not know—what? Cases in Britain and Germany are at odds with each other Continue lendo...
26/09/2019 11:39:58 Lilies tweek their fruit and seeds to ensure their propagation Spit it out Continue lendo...
26/09/2019 11:39:58 An amateur astronomer spots a second interstellar visitor The solar system welcomes comet Borisov Continue lendo...
25/09/2019 21:00:00 Proof emerges that a quantum computer can outperform a classical one A leaked paper has given the game away Continue lendo...
20/09/2019 21:00:00 Predicting the climatic future is riddled with uncertainty But researchers are doing the best they can Continue lendo...
20/09/2019 21:00:00 Ancient climates are written in stone Climate issue: Travertine, a type of limestone, records the ice ages Continue lendo...
13/09/2019 21:00:00 An exoplanet in a star’s Goldilocks zone is confirmed to have water Another tick in the box for habitability Continue lendo...
12/09/2019 11:59:44 Flying taxis are taking off to whisk people around cities But regulatory hurdles still remain Continue lendo...
12/09/2019 11:59:44 The sound of sand reveals its source It’s all about the ancient shellfish Continue lendo...
12/09/2019 11:59:44 Uncovering how the body ages is leading to drugs to reverse it Young blood not required Continue lendo...
12/09/2019 11:59:44 Neanderthals had a propensity for earache, nudging them to their doom A new analysis of their skulls points to an anatomical problem Continue lendo...
06/09/2019 21:00:00 Artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of war A new type of arms race could be on the cards Continue lendo...
06/09/2019 21:00:00 Bangalore, we have a problem India’s effort to land on the Moon may be stillborn Continue lendo...
30/08/2019 21:00:00 New ways to make vertical farming stack up Cultivating fresh produce in an artificial environment is getting cheaper Continue lendo...
30/08/2019 21:00:00 A scientific study has established that there is no “gay gene” But biology does in part determine sexual orientation Continue lendo...
29/08/2019 11:45:35 Cerebral organoids are becoming more brainlike Like real brains, they show signs of synchronous electrical activity Continue lendo...
21/08/2019 21:00:00 Gravitational astronomy proves its maturity With the sighting of a merger between a black hole and a neutron star Continue lendo...
16/08/2019 21:00:00 Leopard seals share their suppers Bad news if you are a penguin Continue lendo...
15/08/2019 12:08:38 As face-recognition technology spreads, so do ideas for subverting it They work because machine vision and human vision are different Continue lendo...
15/08/2019 12:08:38 An accident in Russia points to the risks of atomic aviation Chernobyl with wings Continue lendo...
14/08/2019 21:00:00 Two treatments for Ebola emerge from a clinical trial in Africa Both rely on special antibodies Continue lendo...
09/08/2019 21:00:00 No one has yet been killed by re-entering space junk Engineers are working hard to keep it that way Continue lendo...
09/08/2019 21:00:00 Gloom from the climate-change front line But not complete doom, if people behave sensibly Continue lendo...
08/08/2019 11:45:18 A tale of elephants, ants, trees and fire shows how complex nature is Ecological links are not always predictable Continue lendo...
02/08/2019 21:00:00 Astronomers are probing faraway planets with greater sophistication And a new science is emerging Continue lendo...
01/08/2019 11:46:45 How to wring power from the night air Mimic the way that lightning happens Continue lendo...
25/07/2019 12:07:39 Tree stumps can live on indefinitely... ...with a little help from their friends Continue lendo...
24/07/2019 21:00:00 Greenhouse-gas emissions are increasing the frequency of heatwaves And it will get worse in future Continue lendo...
20/07/2019 21:00:00 Heatwaves are more dangerous in cities Pavement and plants can counter the urban heat-island effect Continue lendo...
18/07/2019 11:52:25 Alan Turing, a computing pioneer, will feature on Britain’s £50 notes And about time, too Continue lendo...
17/07/2019 21:00:00 Elon Musk wants to link brains directly to machines A device worn behind the ear might send your thoughts to your devices Continue lendo...
11/07/2019 11:51:14 A new type of engine for electric cars Putting motors in wheels lightens vehicles and shrinks batteries Continue lendo...
11/07/2019 11:51:14 A team of chemists are searching for a new red pigment Ten years ago they found the first new blue for two centuries Continue lendo...
11/07/2019 11:51:14 Contrary to the fears of some, penguins and people do mix At least, that is what an analysis of their guano suggests Continue lendo...
10/07/2019 21:00:00 The oldest known Homo sapiens outside Africa was Greek The skull was dug up in the 1970s, but only now identified Continue lendo...
05/07/2019 21:00:00 Beetles and flies are becoming part of the agricultural food chain They are raised in farms and fed to fish Continue lendo...
05/07/2019 21:00:00 How to make a better raincoat with tiny “water bowls” Superhydrophobic shapes for repelling water from surfaces Continue lendo...
05/07/2019 21:00:00 Armed with smartphones, Colombians are taking on the local mozzies Mosquito vetting Continue lendo...
05/07/2019 21:00:00 Buried metal artefacts gather stories on their surfaces The result is a chemical biography of the object Continue lendo...
28/06/2019 21:00:00 In fighting cancer, look to what other animals do Big species have fewer tumours than small ones Continue lendo...
28/06/2019 21:00:00 Vegetarian crocodiles once roamed the world A lesson in not stereotyping on the basis of modern examples Continue lendo...
28/06/2019 21:00:00 Hybrid airliners could come to dominate the skies They use both orthodox engines and electric motors in an optimum mix Continue lendo...
26/06/2019 21:00:00 Capuchin monkeys have been using stone tools for around 3,000 years Bang the rocks together, guys Continue lendo...
21/06/2019 21:00:00 The bioluminescence people find so attractive is a defence mechanism It drives away the predators of microscopic plankton Continue lendo...
21/06/2019 21:00:00 People are more honest than they think they are More money in a lost wallet means it is more likely to be returned Continue lendo...
21/06/2019 21:00:00 Stopping bees swapping hives keeps disease down and productivity up The probable reason is that they don’t then spread mites Continue lendo...
21/06/2019 21:00:00 Greenland’s ice sheet is melting unusually fast That may raise the sea level by an extra millimetre this year Continue lendo...