[ad_1] Lady Margaret passionflower Seeds: Time Capsules of Life/Rob Kesseler and Wolfgang Stuppy/Papadakis Publisher, UK Since the emergence of seeds around 360 million years ago, plants have flourished – from the most imposing of giant sequoias to the daintiest of herbs. The new book Seeds: Time capsules of life by visual artist Rob Kesseler and…
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[ad_1] The comet Neowise and the Milky Way galaxy Adventure_Photo/Getty Images One of my favourite memories of July 2020 is standing outside on a clear summer evening looking at a beautiful comet, known as C/2020 F3, or Neowise, through a shaky pair of binoculars. It was a strange period, to say the least, but stargazing…
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[ad_1] The athletics stadium at the Paris Olympics last month dpa picture alliance/Alamy TestedRose EvelethNPR and CBC The Olympics are over. But I am still thinking about the displays of strength, skill, teamwork – and joy. Decathlete Markus Rooth skipping as he realised he had won his 100 metre heat. The women of Italy’s gold medal-winning fencing…
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[ad_1] This band can collect sweat excreted around the wrists or ankles Soongwon Cho & Ruihao Song Elastic bands embedded with colour-changing sensors can reveal how hard muscles are working by measuring the acidity of sweat on skin. The device could be used to improve worker safety in physically demanding jobs, such as the construction…
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[ad_1] Google has built a number of quantum computers Google If a small quantum computer makes a small number of errors, will a large quantum computer make even more errors, making it completely useless? No, say researchers at Google who have made a key breakthrough in error correction for quantum devices, setting out a theoretical…
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[ad_1] Hurricane Beryl was one of only three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin so far this season NASA Earth Observatory For the past 27 years, without fail, the Labor Day holiday weekend in the US has featured a storm in the Atlantic – but not in 2024. In early September, the Atlantic basin remained suspiciously…
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[ad_1] The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. There has been quite a stir over the last week regarding a remarkable paper (Svennevig et al. 2024) that was published in the journal Science, describing a series of events that…
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[ad_1] Supermodel Elle Macpherson declined chemotherapy to treat breast cancer Australian Associated Press/Alamy Half of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives, but how many will be able to consult dozens of doctors and then feel confident rejecting mainstream medical advice? In a recent interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine, Australian…
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[ad_1] What Earth may have looked like with a ring Oliver Hull After a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have developed a Saturn-like ring of debris that lasted for tens of millions of years – and may have significantly affected the planet’s climate. That is according to Andy Tomkins and…
[ad_1] The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider SciTech Image/James King-Holmes/Alamy Stock Photo A possible crack in the standard model of particle physics seems to be shrinking, as new data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) contradicts a previous puzzling result that had physicists excited about the possibility of new, exotic physics – but…
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