By Matthew Sparkes Drones have been used to send quantum internet signalsHua-Ying Liu et al Entangled photons have been sent between two drones hovering a kilometre apart, demonstrating technology that could form the building blocks of a quantum internet. When a pair of photons are quantum entangled, you can instantly deduce the state of one […]
Read Inscape is Louise Carey’s first solo novel: a science fiction tale of near-future corporate surveillance in which a young soldier is sent to discover the source of an attack on her home, and gets more than she bargained for. Explore V&A and CERN Classroom Live invites online visitors to explore ALICE, a detector dedicated […]
By Leah Crane The InSight mole team tried to save the mole by pressing on it with the lander’s arm scoop, but ultimately couldn’t get it to dig down into MarsNASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s “mole” on Mars has failed. After nearly two years of attempting to dig the InSight lander’s heat probe – nicknamed the mole – […]
By Richard Sima The fear instilled by eagles can disturb breeding guillemotsAron Hejdstrom The birds were behaving strangely. Normally, the summer months would be a productive breeding season for the seabirds known as guillemots or murres living on the island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. But, of course, 2020 wasn’t a normal year. […]
By Ibrahim Sawal Over 1.5 million lesser snow geese gather on the soda flats of Lake Natron in northern TanzaniaSilverback Films A Perfect PlanetBBC 1From 3 January 2021 Cryogenic frogs and blood-sucking finches are among the many remarkable animals to star in David Attenborough’s latest series, A Perfect Planet, which examines what made Earth so […]
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Lines of ambulances and a steady stream of patients arriving at the Royal London Hospital, UKMark Thomas/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 14 January Record number of […]
By Gitonga Njeru Northern white rhino Fatu (right) and southern white rhino Tauwo (left) with a caretaker in Ol Pejeta Conservancy in KenyaDAI KUROKAWA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The northern white rhino may be able to avoid extinction for a while longer. Fertilised eggs are set to be implanted in the two remaining rhinos this year in the hope […]
By Donna Lu Mediterranean seagrass traps plastic particles in its leavesJordi Regàs Underwater seagrass may be naturally trapping millions of pieces of marine plastic and removing them from the sea. Posidonia oceanica, a seagrass endemic to the Mediterranean, forms lush meadows on the sea floor in coastal waters up to 40 metres deep. When P. […]
We have been in many last chance saloons with climate change, but there are now reasons to believe we might finally go out and take action, writes Graham Lawton Environment | Comment 13 January 2021 By Graham Lawton Clemens Bilan/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock ONE temptation that is hard to resist when writing about the environment is the narrative […]
Making changes to genes with CRISPR has the potential to cure diseases and feed the world, if we can learn to control it. Now it looks like viruses hold the solution Technology 13 January 2021 By Gege Li THERE is a technology that could tackle some of life’s most pressing problems, from disease to malnutrition. […]