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Picturing life in the dust bowl remains of the once mighty Aral Sea
A portrait of a lone fisherman catching Artemia (a primitive arthropod also known as brine shrimp) Kristina Varaksina ONCE the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, the Aral Sea has now shrunk from 68,000 square kilometres to just 10 per cent of its former size. Photographer Kristina Varaksina travelled to the Republic of Karakalpakstan, an…
Governments must stay in it for the long haul on long covid research
Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock IT HAS been nearly four years since the covid-19 pandemic began, and many of us would love to forget all about it. But there are millions for whom that is impossible. For them, covid-19 still looms large due to lingering symptoms that remain months, even years, after the initial infection. Thankfully, interest…
The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland
The reintroduction of beavers has already transformed parts of the Scottish landscape and provided much-needed habitats for many animals, delighting conservationists but alarming some landowners Source link
How 2023 shattered nearly every modern climate record
A wildfire rages near Athens, Greece Valerie GACHE / AFP This year’s COP28 climate summit began with a stark reminder of what is at stake during the coming fortnight of climate negotiations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At the opening of the summit, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released their State of the Global Climate…
Physicists have worked out how to pour water as quietly as possible
Can you pour without making a sound? Shutterstock / lavsketch The key to pouring water very quietly from a teapot is not just holding the spout close to the cup, but creating a perfectly smooth stream of liquid. Mouad Boudina at Seoul National University in South Korea drinks tea every morning. Repeatedly pouring tea into…
The music you should play at a party to ensure conversations flow
Conversations may flow more easily at parties if the background music is obscure skynesher/Getty Images If you want your guests to be particularly sociable at an upcoming party, play music they probably haven’t heard before. Jane Brown at the University of Memphis in Tennessee and her colleague Gavin Bidelman at Indiana University Bloomington wanted to…
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones for the first time
A femur, one of the bones that held traces of cannabis Gaia Giordano, Mirko Mattia, Michele Boracchi, et al. The first evidence of cannabis discovered in archaeological skeletal remains comes from bones of people buried under a hospital in Milan, Italy, in the 17th century. “Molecules of medicinal plants can be detected by toxicological analysis…
Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shouldn’t exist
An artist’s rendering of the view from LHS 3154b towards its tiny host star Penn State An enormous planet orbiting a tiny star may break our ideas about planet formation. Astronomers have found a world more than 13 times as massive as Earth orbiting a star nine times less massive than the sun, and our…
DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step molecular movie
Researchers now know how a light-powered DNA repair system works Alexey Kotelnikov/Alamy Two teams of researchers have uncovered microscopic details of how a protein called photolyase uses light to repair DNA. The discovery could help develop sustainable technologies for chemical manufacture that rely on sunlight. Most organisms, except many mammals, have photolyase. These proteins repair…
Chinstrap penguins take thousands of very short naps every day
Chinstrap penguins sleep for a few seconds at a time benkrut/iStockphoto/Getty Images Chinstrap penguins are avid nappers, taking more than 10,000 a day – but each one lasts just 4 seconds. Dozing off for several short bouts every day is a common habit for birds. Pigeons, for example, can have hundreds of microsleeps a day,…