[ad_1] By Adam Vaughan A Lufthansa Airbus A340-300 waiting to take-off at Dusseldorf international airport, Germany Clynt Garnham Aviation/Alamy Several European airlines have been engaged in wide-ranging lobbying to challenge European Union climate policies, including imminent plans to force them to use more green biofuels, a UK-based think tank has found. InfluenceMap, a think tank […]
[ad_1] By Timothy Revell MarioGuti/Getty Images Are you a budding photographer? Then you should consider entering our exciting new photography competition. The New Scientist Photography Awards 2021 will celebrate images that illustrate how science and technology impact our lives and the world around us, with a £1000 prize for the overall winner. Anyone over the […]
[ad_1] By Krista Charles The Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric plant was damaged by a debris flow Irfan Rashid, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir The 2021 flood in Uttarakhand, India, that resulted in over 200 dead and missing was the result of an avalanche that dropped about 27 million square metres of rock and glacier ice […]
[ad_1] By Clare Wilson Ordinary ear defenders can be modified to detect blood alcohol levels Creativ Studio Heinemann/Getty Forget blowing into a breathalyser – a new drink-driving test could involve putting on a pair of ear defenders. Koji Toma at Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan and his colleagues have created a device that […]
[ad_1] By Alice Klein Kay Davis conducts a survey on a flat reef at Heron Island in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia Ashly McMahon The world’s coral reefs could start to disappear by the middle of the century as stress induced by climate change erodes their skeletons faster than they can regenerate. Corals build their […]
[ad_1] By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Rob Pinney/Getty Images) Latest coronavirus news as of 5pm on 10 June UK health secretary Matt Hancock questioned on government’s handling of pandemic The […]
[ad_1] By Leah Crane The EnVision mission will use radar to study Venus’s underground structure NASA/JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Damia Bouic/VR2Planets Venus is going to get yet another visitor. In addition to the two NASA missions announced on 2 June, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sending its own orbiter called EnVision to help study why our sweltering neighbour […]
[ad_1] By New Scientist and Press Association Restoring native woodlands can help protect against climate change as well as boost nature Chris Gorman/Getty Images The two planetary crises of climate change and nature loss must be tackled together or neither will be successfully solved, a major report has warned. Action to help natural habitats, such […]
[ad_1] By David Hambling The US has developed a drone interceptor that fires what appears to be a form of Silly String into their rotors, bringing them down with minimal risk of accidental damage. The interceptor was created by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It is launched from a vehicle and guided […]
[ad_1] By Leah Crane An artist’s impression of a quantum microscope The University of Queensland Powerful microscopes have made a quantum leap. Using a quantum trick with light has allowed researchers to examine living cells in unprecedented detail without destroying them, a technique that could improve medical diagnoses and microbiology research. The microscopes that are […]