Interactive screens from simple principles
Lee Constable looks at how smartphones became smart.
This is an excerpt from a feature article in the latest edition of Cosmos magazine. The most commonly used touchsc...
Far enough for you?
Study assesses social distancing and face masks.
Over the past six months, most of us have had to come to terms with a world previously known only to those living or ...
News
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Did Mars have rings? Will it again?
Moons tell a complicated family story.
Scientists studying the orbits of Mars’ moons have found evidence the Red Planet may once have had rings — and may so...
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Maya monuments and maize in the Americas
Archaeologists make two important discoveries.
Modern technology has helped archaeologists add two more pieces to the puzzle of the history of the Americas. 3D i...
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For female gorillas, size doesn’t matter
Study shows status is the key to reproductive success.
Social status, not size, determines reproductive success for female mountain gorillas, new research shows. Body si...
Features
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Snapshot
Watch the art of Roman Hill on film
Fluid dynamics in action can be a visual feast.
https://vimeo.com/romanhill/asabove Roman Hill’s canvas is eight square millimetres of glass and his media are co...
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Conversation
Pandemic boosts big tech transformation
Changes are now moving at warp speed, expert suggests.
The coronavirus pandemic has sped up changes that were already happening across society, from remote learning and wor...
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History
Gifford Pinchot plants an idea
US politician also made his mark saving forests.
Gifford Pinchot was both a politician and a scientist, living in a time when the two were not mutually exclusive, as ...
Space
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Did Mars have rings? Will it again?
Moons tell a complicated family story.
Scientists studying the orbits of Mars’ moons have found evidence the Red Planet may once have had rings — and may so...
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The theory of how black holes grow
New model aims to predict accretion or merger.
Astrophysicists in the US have developed a theoretical model for black holes to predict if growth by gas accretion or...
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Hot stars plagued by giant magnetic spots
They’re like sunspots but not, new data suggest.
Astronomers have found what they describe as “a plague of magnetic spots” on the surface of extremely hot stars hidde...
Technology
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Focus
Interactive screens from simple principles
Lee Constable looks at how smartphones became smart.
This is an excerpt from a feature article in the latest edition of Cosmos magazine. The most commonly used touchsc...
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Shoes that stick and clothes that reveal
That may sound bad, but it actually isn’t.
What we wear isn’t just about comfort and style when scientists get involved. Function rules fashion. Two recent i...
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Nature
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For female gorillas, size doesn’t matter
Study shows status is the key to reproductive success.
Social status, not size, determines reproductive success for female mountain gorillas, new research shows. Body si...
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For the evolution of smarts, parents matter
Songbird research shows cognitive and survival benefits.
Humans are not the only species that enjoy prolonged childhoods: elephants, whales, dolphins and some bats and birds ...
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Sixth time unlucky
Study suggests hundreds of land species near extinction.
There’s something sobering – terrifying is the more apt word – about a peer-reviewed paper that contains, under the h...
Earth
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Scientists identify the ‘cleanest’ air on Earth
Area above the Southern Ocean unscarred by human activity.
The Southern Ocean is the place to breathe deep, it seems. Atmospheric scientists say they have identified a regio...
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Asteroid created huge hydrothermal system
Researchers examine cores from more than a kilometre down.
Mexico’s 66-million-year-old Chicxulub crater continues to reveal its secrets. Just three days ago researchers sug...
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Antarctic ice sheets capable of hasty retreat
Researchers look back to the end of the last Ice Age.
The ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic coastline were retreating at up to 50 metres a day at the end of the last I...
History
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Maya monuments and maize in the Americas
Archaeologists make two important discoveries.
Modern technology has helped archaeologists add two more pieces to the puzzle of the history of the Americas. 3D i...
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DNA and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Modern technology used to explore ancient manuscripts.
Scientists are learning more about the Dead Sea Scrolls not by examining the texts but by looking at what they were w...
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Rare and early evidence of a kleptoparasite
Chinese fossils reveal secrets from the Cambrian.
Palaeontologists say they have uncovered the oldest known record of a parasite/host relationship. Credit: Zhifei Z...
People
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Conversation
Pandemic boosts big tech transformation
Changes are now moving at warp speed, expert suggests.
The coronavirus pandemic has sped up changes that were already happening across society, from remote learning and wor...
-
History
Gifford Pinchot plants an idea
US politician also made his mark saving forests.
Gifford Pinchot was both a politician and a scientist, living in a time when the two were not mutually exclusive, as ...
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Health
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The changing face of cholesterol problems
Levels are dropping in the West but rising in Asia.
High blood cholesterol has increased in lower- and middle-income countries and declined in high-income countries sinc...
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Research
Far enough for you?
Study assesses social distancing and face masks.
Over the past six months, most of us have had to come to terms with a world previously known only to those living or ...
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Insulin may benefit from working at a snail’s pace
Research flags new direction for diabetes treatments.
New diabetes treatments may be based around making human insulin that acts more quickly by being more snail-like. ...
Core Sciences
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Snapshot
Watch the art of Roman Hill on film
Fluid dynamics in action can be a visual feast.
https://vimeo.com/romanhill/asabove Roman Hill’s canvas is eight square millimetres of glass and his media are co...
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Genes linked to evolution of languages
A musical background helps too, research suggests.
If you say “ma” in Mandarin, you could be saying mother, hemp, horse or scold, depending purely on your pitch. Thi...
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Human tumours harbour unique bacteria
Study shows they are found even in ‘sterile’ tissue.
Different human tumour types harbour their own unique bacterial communities, according to a new and comprehensive mic...