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Jurassic World Dominion's dinosaur trafficking isn't far from reality

Jurassic World Dominion's dinosaur trafficking isn't far from reality

13 July 2022

The movie franchise's conclusion features black market dinosaur trading. Although it is fictional, this storyline rings alarmingly true for birds, the direct descendants of dinosaurs, warns Raj Tawney


Mandatory Credit: Photo by CAROLINE BREHMAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (13023803f) Healthcare worker Jesus Eduardo Lara, collects information before taking a nasal swab sample to test for Covid-19, at a Total Testing Solutions Covid Testing Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, 08 July 2022. Covid-19 positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals has risen to over 1000 people since 02 July, as highly contagious variants of the virus take hold. Los Angeles County Covid-19 hospitalizations surge, USA - 08 Jul 2022

We can curb surging covid-19 cases – but we can't do it without data

13 July 2022

We have the tools to tackle the global wave of BA.4 and BA.5 infections, but testing cutbacks make it hard to get an accurate picture of the current state of the pandemic


A Ukrainian soldier observing the area at a destroyed bridge

Efforts to regulate 'killer robots' are threatened by war in Ukraine

13 July 2022

International efforts to legally control the use of "killer robots" are faltering because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine


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UK scientists in EU funding limbo after Boris Johnson's resignation

12 July 2022

The government says its plan to launch a new science funding scheme has not changed, but a new prime minister could bring a change of direction


plane destroyed in Hurricane Gilbert

Hurricane that hit Jamaica helped low-lying trees spread to mountains

12 July 2022

Hurricane Gilbert struck Jamaica in 1988, and the damage it left in its wake might have allowed warm-adapted trees that normally grow at low altitudes to take root on the island’s mountains


James Webb Space Telescope’s first deep-field image is stunning

James Webb Space Telescope’s first deep-field image is stunning

11 July 2022

The first science image from the James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and highest-resolution infrared image of the universe ever captured


colorful bouncing balls

DeepMind AI learns physics by watching videos that don't make sense

11 July 2022

An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and ones where they don't


Male friends eating pizza with beer on street

Men may eat more in summer because sunlight makes them hungrier

11 July 2022

Sunlight hitting the skin seems to boost secretion of an appetite-boosting hormone in men, causing them to eat more in summer – but women aren't affected in the same way


Wreckage of a Long March rocket that fell to Earth in China in 2014

10 per cent chance falling rockets will hit someone in next decade

11 July 2022

Humans are sending ever more rockets up into space – bits of them falling back to Earth could result in casualties, unless action is taken


James Webb space telescope

How the James Webb Space Telescope's first colour images were made

11 July 2022

Joseph DePasquale, the lead image processor for the James Webb Space Telescope, says seeing its first colour picture was an "overwhelming" experience


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