Category: 7. SciTech

A beautifully observed image of a bearded dragon basking under the hot Australian sun has been named the winner in the British Ecological Society’s annual photography competition, Capturing Ecology. The winning images, taken by ecologists, photographers and students, highlight and… Continue Reading

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The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter The oldest known tombstone in the US belonged to an English knight and… Continue Reading

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Picky eating is largely influenced by genes and peaks at the age of seven,… Continue Reading

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are wreaking havoc in Earth’s orbit and… Continue Reading

Scientists have spent decades trying to understand how gravity operates at its most basic scale. However, no theory has come close to fully explaining it. Now, though, a new theory could finally give us the means to “see” gravity for the first time. The latest theory is based… Continue Reading

A new analysis led by a group of College researchers finds the U.S. will fall short of its recently finalized target for reducing vehicle emissions by nearly 15 percent over the next decade because of unrealistic goals for increasing electric-vehicle production. But adding more hybrids to the… Continue Reading

Pop quiz: how much larger is the carbon footprint of a person in the top 1 per cent of earners in the US compared to someone in the bottom 50 per cent? The (somewhat depressing) answer: on average, it’s a 1,388 times bigger. This means that, despite being outnumbered by 167 million people,… Continue Reading

Exactly why CSD starts, nobody knows. Similarly, plenty of mysteries remain about what activates the pain of migraines. Past studies have proposed that migraine headaches occur when something in the cerebrospinal fluid indirectly activates nerves in the nearby meninges, the layers of membrane… Continue Reading

Returning for its second edition this October in Berlin, the WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit is bringing together Europe’s leading experts and visionaries in the green energy sector to explore how to accelerate the creation of a fully carbon-free energy system. Last year’s summit focused… Continue Reading