[ad_1] By Joshua Rapp Learn Illustration of a herd of Argentinosaurus, a type of gigantic titanosaurJAMES KUETHER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Fossils of a gigantic dinosaur are emerging from the ground in Argentina after 98 million years – and the creature may be the largest land animal that scientists have ever found. The ancient bones are from […]
[ad_1] By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Passengers at Heathrow airport in west London on 15 JanuaryDANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 4pm on 15 January Concern grows about new coronavirus variant […]
[ad_1] By Layal Liverpool The race to vaccinate as many people as possible against covid-19 is under way, but unless we track who receives the vaccine we won’t be able to ensure the benefits are spread equitably. Publishing ethnicity and other demographic data must become a priority. This will be vital for countries to ensure […]
[ad_1] The podcast Life with Fire explores the wildfires a warming world will create – and why we need to involve everyone if we are going to learn how best to live with them Environment 13 January 2021 By Sandrine Ceurstemont A hillside blaze during the Elkhorn fire, near Red Bluff, California, in August 2020via […]
[ad_1] We’ve finally made a room-temperature superconductor, so materials that transport electricity without wasting any of it are within our grasp Technology 13 January 2021 By Michael Brooks THEY called it the “Woodstock of physics”. The hastily convened evening session of the American Physical Society meeting in the New York Hilton hotel on 18 March […]
[ad_1] This dazzling image shows the upgraded and more sensitive Advanced Virgo+ detector, which hunts for clues about the universe that are contained in gravitational waves Technology 13 January 2021 By Gege Li Photographer Enrico Sacchetti THIS magnificent instrument, captured by photographer Enrico Sacchetti, is the Advanced Virgo+ interferometer. The image has been shortlisted for […]
[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] 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 […]
[ad_1] 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 […]