11 March 2021
When using VR headsets, differences between what the inner ear feels and what the eyes see can create nausea, but better tracking of the head’s position in space can reduce the effect
11 March 2021
Women may have ruled in a western European society that existed 4000 years ago – which may explain why a woman wearing a silver crown was buried beneath an ancient palace
10 March 2021
Compressing wood generates tiny amounts of electricity through the so-called piezoelectric effect – and if the wood is partially rotted by fungi first the effect is 55 times stronger
10 March 2021
A genetic analysis of prehistoric remains found in a mass grave in Croatia reveals the victims were men, women and children with few family links, suggesting an indiscriminate massacre
10 March 2021
Machine learning, a process used to train artificial intelligences, can take an extremely long time – but a quantum trick could massively speed things up for tasks involving particles of light called photons
10 March 2021
The smallest-scale measurements of gravity ever made show that a tiny gold ball weighing 90 milligrams can move another gold ball just a few nanometres through gravitational pull
9 March 2021
A small study shows that people who have previously been infected with the coronavirus make similar levels of antibodies after one vaccine dose as people normally have after two shots
