[ad_1] Corvids such as rooks and crows seem to have a unusually high number of interneurons, brain cells involved in processing information Life 1 April 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu A carrion crow (Corvus corone) Shutterstock/Rudmer Zwerver Crows can recognise themselves in mirrors, use tools and plan for the future, all cognitive abilities more similar…
[ad_1] Vital cooling systems for controlling nuclear waste at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant are offline, leading to concerns that radioactive waste might escape Physics 9 March 2022 By Matthew Sparkes A drone image of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, taken on 7 March 2022 Russia MOD/EYEPRESS/Shutterstock Fears of a potential…
[ad_1] Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” was organized by employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit group that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of…
[ad_1] If you have recently interviewed an internal applicant for a role in your company and they did not get the job, then you will probably be dreading telling them. However, the way you approach this conversation is likely to have a profound effect on the way they see themselves in the business and the…
[ad_1] A team that included University of Wyoming researchers has used four different scientific approaches to give substantial support to the belief that humans lived in the Andean highlands of South America all year round more than 7,000 years ago. The scientists examined human remains and other archaeological findings obtained from a site at close…
[ad_1] Remember the classic chases where Wile E. Coyote tries to catch Roadrunner but is often outsmarted? It turns out that bacteria have to survive their own epic chases, in a way. They are constantly developing new ways to outwit their old enemy: antibiotics. Antibiotics have been around long before modern medicine because they are…
[ad_1] Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2022-04-01 11:51 Trace elements in tree rings can help scientists understand changes in the atmosphere and environment of the past. Researchers looked at whether this technique could be used on kauri trees. They found that while there was significant variation at some sites,…
[ad_1] Stronger southern dust cycles on Mars stifle its northern polar vortex and increase its snowfall rate, up to a point at least. These results, which are based on an analysis of observations taken over 10 Earth years (5 Mars years), shed light on the global connection between Mars’s dominant dust cycle and its global…
[ad_1] Welcome to The Undark Podcast. In this episode, join technology journalist Nicole Edwards and this month’s host Lacy Roberts as they explore the debate over a new, and possibly greener technology for cremating human remains — alkaline hydrolysis, known as water cremation or aquamation. Below is the full transcript of the podcast, lightly edited…
[ad_1] [NAIROBI] An innovative bed net that immobilises mosquitoes by making them unable to move or fly, has the potential to significantly reduce malaria infection in children, according to trial data analysis. Malaria is a leading cause of illness and death in many developing countries, with young children and pregnant women most affected. In 2020…