Leaving Twitter? Here's what other social media platforms offer
7 December 2022
With the platform looking a little the worse for wear after its recent acquisition by Elon Musk, Annalee Newitz tries the best alternatives, so you don’t have to
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Marine sciences must cast off an imperial legacy of ocean exploitation
7 December 2022
A century and a half after HMS Challenger embarked on the first global survey of the ocean, some ideas from the era still linger. They urgently need to be left behind, says Helen Scales
The science of self-knowledge is important, even if it is a bit fuzzy
7 December 2022
Who you really are is a major question worth pursuing for most people, so research into self-knowledge is important despite the fact it often relies on subjective findings
Homo naledi may have used fire to cook and navigate 230,000 years ago
6 December 2022
Archaeologists say they have found evidence that Homo naledi, an extinct human species with a tiny brain, used fire to cook and light up dark tunnels – though this claim remains controversial
COP15 target to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 is ‘unrealistic’
5 December 2022
Goal to “halt and reverse” biodiversity loss by 2030 – a headline aim of the COP15 biodiversity summit – could take 80 rather than eight years to achieve, say conservationists
Girl with a Pearl Earring and Mona Lisa recreated with nanotechnology
5 December 2022
A technique that uses nanoscale structures to reproduce colour has been employed to make copies of famous paintings, and could also help fight counterfeiting
Mars may have a huge plume of hot rocks rising towards its surface
5 December 2022
Mars has been viewed as a mostly geologically static world, but the planet may have an enormous underground plume of hot rocks slowly rising towards the surface
Most people who threatened to quit Twitter for Mastodon haven't left
2 December 2022
Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit Elon Musk’s social media platform
The 3013 neurons in the brain of a fly larva have been mapped in full
2 December 2022
A complete map of the neurons inside the brain of a fruit fly larva is the largest example of a whole-brain "connectome", and is a stepping stone to describing the brains of more complex animals, including mice and humans
JWST has taken pictures of clouds on Saturn’s moon Titan
1 December 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have watched clouds changing shape in the sky of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, which could help us understand its weird atmosphere
