Category Science

The winning entry, “Calcium rainbow” Charlotte Buckley, University of Strathclyde, British Heart Foundation – Reflections of Research The muscle cells lining an artery resemble a stained glass window in this image, the winner of the British Heart Foundation’s annual Reflections…

November 4, 2024 4 min read The Myth that Musicians Die at 27 Shows How Superstitions Are Made Famous people who die at 27, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse, get even more famous because of the…

Fibres from wet wipes can get into fertilisers if they are flushed down the toilet Linda Kennedy/Alamy Natural fibres that are increasingly being used in wet wipes may actually do more harm to the environment than the synthetic ones they…

November 5, 2024 2 min read These Bird Nests Show Signs of an Architectural ‘Culture’ Culture may play a role in how birds build collectively in the Kalahari Desert By Gennaro Tomma White-browed Sparrow-Weaver nests and roosts. Wolfgang Kaehler/Alamy Stock…

A cylinder seal and its design imprinted onto clay Franck Raux © 2001 GrandPalaisRmn (Musée du Louvre) The world’s oldest known writing system may have had its origins in the imagery on decorated cylinders used to denote ownership. Some of…

Police stand guard in front of a hotel a day ahead of the COP16 United Nations biodiversity conference in Cali, Colombia, on 19 October Fernando Vergara/AP/Alamy Biodiversity loss is a crisis – and it is now clearer than ever that…

Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, Indonesia Aliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy A common sunscreen ingredient, zinc nanoparticles, may help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common problem under climate change. Zinc is known to play an important role in…

November 4, 2024 5 min read The Law Must Respond when Science Changes What was once fair under the law may become unfair when science changes. The law must react to uphold due process By David Faigman & Jeff Kukucka…

James Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies, left) and John Franklin (Ciarán Hinds) James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust The TerrorAMCShowrunners: David Kajganich, Soo Hugh In September, an awful truth was brought to light. Ever since contact was lost with the Franklin expedition, an…

CLIMATEWIRE | ON NAVAJO LAND, Arizona — It was a solar panel array that finally gave Norma Toledo a place to call home. For nights at a time this year, Toledo slept outside a Walmart in the cab of her…