Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa
31 August 2022
A predecessor of the long-necked sauropods named Mbiresaurus raathi provides clues about how climate restricted the range of early dinosaurs
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Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts
30 August 2022
The vast array of shapes that fungi can take, including colourful mushroom caps and tangles of thread-like moulds, evolved in two big bursts hundreds of millions of years ago
Deadly Pakistan floods are a climate catastrophe, says UN chief
30 August 2022
Eight weeks of torrential rain during a severe monsoon season have left a third of Pakistan underwater, in the worst flooding since 2010
Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals
26 August 2022
Mucus-producing mucin proteins have repeatedly and independently emerged in mammals, possibly through co-option of existing proteins into slime factories
Heat-loving, oil-eating bacteria are seeping out of the seafloor
26 August 2022
A genetic analysis suggests that petroleum-eating bacteria that live thousands of metres beneath the seafloor seep out into the ocean where they may then float along currents
Underwater data centre in the Pacific could be running by end of year
26 August 2022
A start-up has developed data centre pods that can be submerged in the ocean to let the water naturally keep them cool. Cooling is normally very energy-intensive
Drugs that mutate viruses to kill them could make them more dangerous
26 August 2022
Several antiviral drugs kill viruses by inducing lots of mutations, but a computer model suggests this could have unpredictable consequences
JWST found carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere – and a mystery
25 August 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant world, and there is also an unexpected bump in the data
Rapid eye movements during sleep reveal where mice look in dreams
25 August 2022
In mice, jerky eye movements in the REM phase of sleep correlate with recordings of brain activity in cells that track head orientation
Anti-laser can make any object suck in light
25 August 2022
A maze of mirrors and lenses turns any material into a highly efficient light absorber and could be used for detection of faint light or charging distant devices with light
