Jul 27, 2023 08:16 am UTC| Science
From the remains of nearly 100 ancient individuals, we have reconstructed two extensive prehistoric family trees from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France, revealing fresh insights into a Stone Age community. Our new...
Jul 19, 2023 10:52 am UTC| Health Science Economy Business
Researchers reveal Eli Lillys experimental Alzheimers drug, donanemab, can potentially slow the disease progression by about four to seven months. Results from a 1,700-patient study published in the Journal of the American...
Jul 11, 2023 07:36 am UTC| Science
Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship. Loeb is...
Biting flies are attracted to blue traps – we used AI to work out why
Jul 05, 2023 03:38 am UTC| Science
Flies which feast on blood such as tsetse and horse flies inflict painful bites and spread debilitating diseases among people and animals alike. So a lot of work has gone into designing the most efficient traps to...
Astronomers see ancient galaxies flickering in slow motion due to expanding space
Jul 04, 2023 07:40 am UTC| Science
According to our best understanding of physics, the fact space is expanding should influence the apparent flow of time, with the distant Universe appearing to run in slow motion. But observations of highly luminous and...
Jun 28, 2023 15:30 pm UTC| Science
A honey bees life depends on it successfully harvesting nectar from flowers to make honey. Deciding which flower is most likely to offer nectar is incredibly difficult. Getting it right demands correctly weighing up...
Jun 28, 2023 15:30 pm UTC| Science
You might be old enough to remember the famous Wheres the Beef? Wendys commercials. This question may be asked in a different context since U.S. regulators approved the sale of lab-grown chicken meat made from cultivated...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight