As temperatures rise, one family hopes to establish the world’s northernmost coffee plantationFor more than 30 years the Morettino family had been trying to produce their own coffee on a small piece of land in Sicily. And for 30 years they had failed.B…
ツンデレなパートナーと上手に付き合う方法は？ “ネコ様”を幸せにする4つのガイドライン
人間にとって大切なパートナーとして存在感が高まっているネコ。「気まぐれ」の代表格ともいえるこの動物の機嫌を損なわないために、人間は何に気をつければいいだろうか？ このほど発表されたふたつの研究から探っていこう。
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Ancient Footprints Could Be Oldest Traces of Humans in the Americas
Opyros writes: Fossil footprints in New Mexico have been dated to 21,000-23,000 years before present. As a result, human habitation of the Americas can be pushed back several thousand years. The footprints were found in sedimentary rock at White Sands …
The decreasing cost of renewables unlikely to plateau anytime soon
Early price forecasts underestimated how good we’d get at making green energy
Can High-Powered Lasers Unlock the Secrets of Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamics?
Phys.org reports that a newly published theoretical/computer-modeling study “suggests that the world’s most powerful lasers might finally crack the elusive physics behind some of the most extreme phenomena in the universe — gamma ray bursts, puls…
The controversial quest to make cow burps less noxious
It’s not so simple as just feeding them gas-busting seaweed.
Newly-Published Evidence Undermines China Lab-Leak Theory
In 1999 Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik won a Pulitzer Prize. Now a business columnist for the Times, he writes that “new evidence undermines the COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it.”
A paper posted online [in Sept…
BepiColombo spacecraft sends its first images of Mercury during flyby
European-Japanese probe swoops in to almost 200km above Sun’s nearest planet, photographing its pock-marked featuresThe European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, as it swung by the solar system’s innermost plan…
Robots: stealing our jobs or solving labour shortages?
From fast food to farming, Covid-19 has accelerated the rise of the worker robots. This in turn will put more jobs at risk and makes the need to reframe society ever more urgentAs the coronavirus pandemic enveloped the world last year, businesses incre…
Doctors, receptionists and practice teams quit after wave of hostility over GP appointments
Fears of mass exodus as abuse by patients skyrockets over blood tests, jabs and face-to-face consultationsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSenior doctors have warned that practice staff and GPs are quitting after an unprecede…