Clean energy tech needs to be pursued despite the mining it involves
10 November 2021
Mining for metals to create batteries and solar panels will come at an environmental cost, but not nearly so dear a price as continuing with fossil fuels
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Medicine must stop using race and ethnicity to interpret test results
10 November 2021
Relying on race and ethnicity when interpreting medical test results can harm patients. It must stop, say Layal Liverpool and Jennifer Tsai
Sterile neutrinos could explain dark matter – if we can find them
10 November 2021
There are good reasons to think that neutrinos have a shy cousin that could explain dark matter, but searches have so far come up empty, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
How a universal flu vaccine could prevent the next pandemic
10 November 2021
Even now, the risk of a deadly flu pandemic is an ever-present danger. But progress on a universal vaccine could protect us and remove the need for annual jabs
Chimpanzees dislike the smell of death like we do
10 November 2021
Some chimpanzees will carry around an infant that did not survive, which made researchers wonder if they are as sensitive to the chemicals that produce odours in dead bodies
Current COP26 climate plans would lead to 2.4°C of global warming
9 November 2021
An analysis of the pledges put forward by countries at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow so far finds that emissions by 2030 fall short of the cuts needed to limit warming to the Paris Agreement target of 1.5°C
Penis worms had hermit crab-like defence system 530 million years ago
8 November 2021
More than half a billion years ago, tiny penis worms had learned to protect themselves by grabbing and living inside snail-like shells, like hermit crabs do today
Earth may have grown around a rock from an alien star system
8 November 2021
Interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua might pass through our solar system in such high numbers that one could have acted as a seed around which Earth grew
Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons
5 November 2021
After NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it turned around and took pictures of the dwarf planet’s back, revealing its moonlit dark side
US military offers $50,000 to predict where sensors drift in the ocean
5 November 2021
The Forecasting Floats in Turbulence competition, run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is a challenge to predict where drifting sensors in the Atlantic will end up in 10 days in order to win a prize
