[ad_1] In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay, prisoners live on a hostile alien world Gremlin/Getty Images Alien ClayAdrian Tchaikovsky (Tor) Service ModelAdrian Tchaikovsky (Tor, out 6 June) British writer Adrian Tchaikovsky has not one, but two new novels out in the first half of this year. That may be due to the vagaries of publishing, rather […]
[ad_1] NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI In the middle of the last century, the psychologist Abraham Maslow set about investigating the foundations of happiness. Interviewing people about their lives, he was intrigued to find that many reported having experienced rare moments of epiphany, associated with “awe… rapture, ecstasy or bliss” in which “all separateness or […]
[ad_1] Fibre optic cables designed to carry telecommunications can also be used to map Earth’s interior Connect world/Shutterstock Offline telecom cables called “dark fibres” can be used to sense underground seismic waves. Geophysicists are increasingly using such signals to study aspects of Earth’s subsurface, including hidden sources of geothermal energy and earthquake hazards. “If a […]
[ad_1] The enormous mouth of a tiny nematode worm Sara Wighard and Ralf Sommer / Max Planck Institute for Biology Tubingen Tiny soil worms called nematodes usually feast on bacteria or algae, and have tiny mouths to suit their diet. But give a baby nematode some fungus and its mouth can as much as double […]
[ad_1] Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images For Bill Gates, artificial intelligence is the most important invention since the internet or the personal computer. For Google boss Sundar Pichai, it will have a more profound impact than electricity and fire. Already, though, there are signs the AI revolution may be faltering. Since OpenAI released its landmark GPT-4 system […]
[ad_1] ryan wills; Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images EVER feel like you are stuck in a hole? Newsflash: you are. Astronomers call it the “local hole”, but that is quite the understatement. It is vast, gigantic, enormously huge – although, in truth, adjectives fail us when it comes to this expanse of nothingness. It is the largest […]
[ad_1] Bull sharks may be vulnerable to cold upwellings Martin Prochazkacz/Shutterstock Upwellings of cold water from the deep sea to the surface can be deadly for marine animals and such events are increasing in frequency due to climate change. In March 2021, hundreds of fish and shellfish, as well as squid, octopuses, manta rays and […]
[ad_1] Aggregated clumps of the protein alpha-synuclein (brown) and antibodies (green) BIOLUTION GMBH/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A drug that targets a build-up of proteins linked to Parkinson’s disease could slow the progression of motor symptoms in people with advanced forms of the condition. Although this shows promise to be a disease-modifying treatment for Parkinson’s, it is […]
[ad_1] Conservationists think tweaking pandas’ diets might shift their gut microbiomes in a way that could encourage them to mate [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] A crater formed by thawing permafrost in Russia Padi Prints/Troy TV Stock/Alamy Areas of permanently frozen ground in northern regions are now emitting more carbon into the atmosphere than they absorb, causing the planet to heat even further, according to the first Arctic-wide estimate of all three major greenhouse gases. Frozen ground, or permafrost, […]