UV light may help birds navigate forests
Amplifying contrast makes leaves stand out more clearly, research shows. Natalie Parletta reports.
Changing the dynamics of getting older
In this issue: Manufacturing in space: factories of the future – Brian Cox on activism – A brief history of spacetime – ‘Osteo-biographies‘ of the dead at Stonehenge – Alex the Astronaut meets Alex, an Astronaut
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Nobel laureate physicist heads to Perth
LIGO pioneer to address conference. Brian W. Pulling reports.
Mathematicians zero in on the birth of Hypatia
Probability theory deployed to recalculate the birth date of antiquity’s most famous female scholar. Gabriella Bernardi reports.
Science history: The ex-slave who transformed the American South
George Washington Carver became a pioneering agricultural scientist – working, literally, for peanuts. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
UV light may help birds navigate forests
Amplifying contrast makes leaves stand out more clearly, research shows. Natalie Parletta reports.
