CLIMATE CHANGE Barriers starve Venice’s wetlands of sediments that sustain them Flood barriers in Venice, Italy, may cause important salt marshes in its lagoon to drown by starving them of sediment they need to keep up with sea level rise, a study has found. To combat a growing incidence of […]
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By Jason Arunn Murugesu Polynesian sacred idol statue on Raivavae island, Polynesia Dmitry Malov/Alamy A genetic study has helped shine a light on how the Polynesian islands of the central and southern Pacific – some of which are thousands of kilometres apart – were populated over the past thousand years. […]
SAN CRISTOBAL ISLAND, Galapagos (AP) — Five months into the pandemic, things were getting desperate for Robin Betancourt, The tourists he depended upon as a boat captain were unable to visit the Galapagos Islands, whose isolation — 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the mainland — makes alternative employment hard to […]
By Adam Rutherford Michelle D’urbano UNSHARED science is of little value. The whole scientific endeavour relies on ideas, methods and data being available to all. The words we use are vital to making sure that we are all on the same page and our ideas are conveyed accurately. But in […]
Culture that surrounds the human race is now helping it to evolve more quickly as a species than changes to our genetics, a new study claims. Researchers at the University of Maine determined culture – which they define as learned knowledge, skills and practices – is becoming the driving force […]
By Claire Ainsworth An adult predatory greenhouse rove beetle feeding on fly larva Nigel Cattlin/Alamy A beetle’s poisonous punch is helping to uncover how new types of cells can arise and co-evolve to create organs – and these mechanisms may apply to more complex organs in animals, including humans. A […]
Browsing Amanda Finnie’s Instagram page, I’m not quite sure where to look. In one video, she is posing in a pair of mini-avocado print knickers – and little else. She turns around to give viewers a close-up of her perfectly rounded, exposed buttock which remains on screen for ten seconds. […]
Discovery that ‘literally changes the textbook’: Eye-brain connection humans have today first evolved in fish 100 MILLION years earlier than previously believed A study found the human eye-brain connection was present 450M years ago This means the network of nerves evolved 100 million years earlier than thought Experts analyzed the […]