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History reveals vital new lessons in how to make our societies better

28 June 2023

At a time when the future of human civilisation looks shaky, a reappraisal of how we got here suggests that changing direction may be easier than we think

The head of Bala Lake, Llyn Tegid, in North Wales, on a fine spring evening.

Why you should never ever mention rewilding to a Welsh hill farmer

28 June 2023

In the push to give nature and the climate a chance to thrive amid growing agricultural pressures, words like rewilding have become de rigueur among researchers. Just don’t tell the farmers, says Graham Lawton

Inside the gigafactory producing the greenest batteries in the world

27 June 2023

Northvolt says that its massive factory in Sweden will soon produce enough batteries each year to power a million electric cars, with a much smaller carbon footprint than those made in China

Dolphins 'talk' to their young in a higher pitch, just like humans do

26 June 2023

Female dolphins modify their vocalisations in the presence of their offspring, mirroring the ‘baby talk’ used by humans

Eating at night could boost your muscles and help you run for longer

26 June 2023

A study in mice has shown that eating during what would normally be a resting period helps build muscle fibres needed for endurance running, though this has yet to be confirmed in humans

How new fetal therapies are treating genetic conditions in the womb

26 June 2023

A genetic condition that sees children develop almost no teeth or sweat glands can now be treated by injecting a protein into the amniotic fluid, in just one of a number of new therapies that act before a child is even born

An artist impression of the Euclid space telescope

Euclid space telescope is about to launch to probe the dark cosmos

26 June 2023

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is scheduled to launch on 1 July and then begin its mission of studying the effects of dark energy and dark matter

Greg Rouse, Scripps Oceanography The Osedax body is visible inside the root of the tooth on the left and the piece emerging from the lower left is the gelatinous tube of the Osedax worm. The worm can retract inside when disturbed so we can see it properly in the picture.

Zombie worms devour shark teeth that fall to the ocean floor

25 June 2023

Deep-sea Osedax worms, known to consume whale bones and the remains of bony fish, also feed on shark teeth after the predators die

Videograb from Seeing the World through Your Eyes. Computer vision technology can reconstruct a 3D image of a scene displayed in the reflection of a person?s eyeball. Jia-Bin Huang and colleagues at the University of Maryland, College Park developed a computer vision model which takes between 5 and 15 photographs from different angles of an individual?s face while they look at a scene, and reconstructs the scene from the reflection in their eyeball using computer vision, a branch of machine learning. https://world-from-eyes.github.io/

Eyeball reflections can reveal a 3D model of what you are looking at

24 June 2023

A computer vision system uses photographs of someone’s face from different angles to reconstruct the scene they are viewing

There's a gravity 'hole' in the Indian Ocean and now we may know why

24 June 2023

Earth appears to have less mass beneath a certain part of the Indian Ocean compared with the rest of the planet. Plumes of magma at the location could explain why