Scientists Say: Dialect
It also can refer just to England and Wales, the territories conquered by the ancient Romans who named the land Britannia.
How insects can help catch rhino poachers
Their analysis of the cases, which occurred between 2014 and 2021, involved tallying the various insect species present at each stage of decomposition, comparing the minimum postmortem interval estimates and factoring in the average ambient temperature during each time period.
Our brains can understand written sentences in the ‘blink of an eye,’ study reveals
Participants performed their best when the sentences contained a subject, verb and object, with the fastest brain activity being seen for phrases such as "nurses clean wounds," compared to noun lists like "hearts lungs livers."
Scientists have dated the moon’s oldest, and largest, impact site
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Tech companies want small nuclear reactors. Here’s how they’d work
Some small modular reactor designs make use of advanced types of fuel, such as TRISO, tiny particles of uranium that are surrounded by multiple layers of encapsulation (shown).Idaho National Laboratory
The U.S. empire was built on bird dung
That act gave the country “permission” to claim sovereignty over any allegedly uninhabited or unclaimed territory to secure access to guano, a prized fertilizer for American tobacco, cotton and wheat fields.
Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries
Hawking’s calculations showed that the radiation should be random, offering no way to predict what types of particles will emerge.
All your questions about Marburg virus answered
Genetic sequencing of cases in Rwanda has revealed that the virus jumped from an animal, like an Egyptian fruit bat or an African green monkey, to a person just once in the ongoing outbreak, the country’s health minister tweeted on 20 October.
The ‘Does It Fly?’ podcast separates fact from science fiction
That’s the premise — and tone — of the entertaining podcast Does It Fly?, hosted by astrophysicist and “mad scientist” (his words) Hakeem Oluseyi and actress, writer and “pop culture expert” Tamara Krinsky.
Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions
A better understanding of the SOP could lead to new treatments for these sleep conditions, while also helping anyone who wants to be more alert or creative – so “pretty much everybody”, says Delphine Oudiette, a cognitive neuroscientist at Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
Saving Mexico’s fir forests could help monarch butterflies
Local foresters from the Indigenous community in Calimaya planted oyamel fir seedlings on the Nevado de Toluca volcano in central Mexico as part of an experiment to see if the trees crucial to monarch butterflies’ survival can thrive in new locations.
All the action from New Scientist Live – in photographs
The speakers included Nobel prizewinner Venki Ramakrishnan on why we die, TV anthropologist Alice Roberts on ancient epidemics, psychologist Kimberley Wilson on eating for better brain health and statistician David Spiegelhalter on how chance rules our lives.
Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation
Evidence of this geomagnetic excursion, known as the Laschamp event, can be found in ancient lava flows, which contain unusually high ratios of certain isotopes caused by increased levels of cosmic rays.
The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?
Then the FEP outgrew the brain, being put forward as a definition of life and, inevitably, as the basis for a new kind of artificial intelligence that can reason.
Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?
"Greenland was weeks away in terms of getting goods to market [in Europe], which made for a difficult trade network operation," Kevin McAleese, a curator at Rooms Provincial Museum in St John's in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, told Live Science in an email.
Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies
The electrostatically charged wings of moths and butterflies could draw pollen out of nearby flowers without the insects needing to land on the blooms, Anna Gibbs reported in “Pollination via static electricity” (SN: 8/24/24, p. 13).
Smartmi Air Purifier E1 review
Lastly, we assessed its air-cleaning performance by conducting a series of tests using the Perfect Prime air particle monitor, a device capable of detecting airborne pollutants as small as 0.3 microns.