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Category: Science
Skin patch coated in covid-19 vaccine may work better t...
Covid-19 vaccines in use today have to be stored at cold temperatures, but a patch covered in tiny plastic spikes coated in a vacc...
COP26: Last seven years warmest on record, says UN clim...
As the COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow, the UN's World Meteorological Organization says global average temperatures have bee...
Smart scheduling for big computing tasks cuts emissions...
We could slash emissions from database backups or long machine-learning tasks by waiting to run them until renewable energy makes ...
Barn owls make mental maps of their surroundings while ...
Neurons that help humans make mental maps, called place cells, have now been seen in flying birds for the first time
What’s next now Tesla is worth a trillion dollars?
Financially speaking, Tesla is a massive success. The question is what will it do with all that money, wonders Rowan Hooper
Australia has had zero measles in 2021 due to covid-19 ...
Many countries have seen sharp falls in the number of measles cases as a result of covid-19 controls, but the pandemic has also in...
Eat less meat and fly less to help climate, says Patric...
The UK's chief scientist has said that both green technology and behavioural changes will be needed to tackle climate change
UK will 'pause' publication of data showing biodiversit...
Next year will see an important meeting to agree global biodiversity targets, but the UK says it won't be publishing key data on w...
DNA of Native American leader Sitting Bull matched to l...
Tatanka Iyotake, popularly known as Sitting Bull, is famed as a 19th century leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux people – and DNA ...
Giant panda's black and white coat works as excellent c...
By analysing images of giant pandas as a big cat would see them, biologists have discovered that a black and white coat is great f...
Covid-19 news: Antidepressant reduces risk of long hosp...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
'5D' storage could hold 10,000 times more data than a B...
An advanced version of the technology used to create DVDs and Blu-rays can store far more data, though it takes a while