En 1994, investigadores tiraron neumáticos desechados a un canal: se convirtieron en arrecifes submarinos con 20 veces más peces a su alrededor
Un experimento que invita a replantear algunas estrategias bajo el agua
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Heathrow expansion 'a risk we cannot afford to take', says mayor
Sir Sadiq Khan is repeating his opposition to a third runway in response to a government consultation.
A fungus turns beetles into zombies and makes them die on flowers; scientists say the timing helps infect the next generation
Science News: A fungus infecting goldenrod soldier beetles can alter their behaviour before death and cause changes to their bodies afterwards. Researchers investig.
What it's like to ride in Uber's new self-driving taxis in London
The ride-hailing app has launched 15 self-driving taxis, but they will have safety drivers inside.
In 1995, Nasa sent 30 fertilised Japanese quail eggs to the Mir space station for 16 days; abnormalities developed in more than four times as many embryos as compared with the Earth ones
Science News: In 1995, a batch of fertilised Japanese quail eggs travelled from Earth to space station ‘Mir’ as part of an experiment designed to answer a question .
In 1921, a young Canadian doctor experimented with starving dogs; one dog's dramatic reaction helped lead to the discovery of insulin
Science News: In May 1921, Frederick Banting arrived at the University of Toronto with an idea about diabetes and little laboratory experience. Professor John J.R. .
In 2018, scientists began removing about 285,000 fish from Wisconsin's McDermott Lake; 4 years later yellow perch were up 788%, but walleye recruitment was still zero
Science News: Scientists removed about 285,000 warm-water fish from a Wisconsin lake over four years in an attempt to help its declining walleye population recover..
A California reservoir forecasting system could add enough usable water to save $100 million to $200 million a year without building a new reservoir, a study estimates
Science News: California’s water problem is often framed around the need for more storage, new infrastructure and expensive construction. But a new study suggests t.
SpaceX sends $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope to look for 'weird, rare, unusual’ stars and planets; leaves NASA's director Nicky Fox in tears
Tech News News: Elon Musk's SpaceX launched NASA's $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope. This mission will send the observatory on a three-month journey to a point in s.
In 1992, Nasa put live frogs and their eggs aboard the Space Shuttle; the eggs were fertilised and developed in microgravity
For a developing frog embryo, gravity is more than the force that keeps it on the ground. It can provide a reference for how the egg is oriented as de.
Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo | TechCrunch
Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.
Continuous glucose monitors are about to get more complicated
Abbott’s new 2-in-1 CGM will help diabetics monitor ketone levels. But can it avoid the wearable hype cycle?
In 2019, US researchers added fluorescent dye to a Pennsylvania mine-water wetland and flew 12 drone missions; a system designed for 29-hour retention held water for only 4.65 hours
Science News: Monastery Run Wetland 1, near Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was built in 1997-1998 as a passive treatment system for several discharges from an abandoned und.
There's mind-blowing math behind a thunderstorm's raindrops
Whether you consider an afternoon storm lovely or a nuisance, have you ever really stopped to consider the amount of water within it?
Scientists released up to 45,000 cubic feet of water per second from Glen Canyon Dam for 8 days in 1996; the artificial flood rebuilt Grand Canyon sandbars
Science News: For eight days in 1996, the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon experienced something unusual: a deliberately created flood. Scientists working wi.
In 1967, the US detonated a 29-kiloton nuclear device 4,227 feet below New Mexico to unlock natural gas; 5 tests produced 213 million cubic feet, but the gas had measurable radioactivity
Science News: In 1967, the United States tried an unusual method to increase natural gas production. It detonated a 29-kiloton device and had an explosoion 4,227 fe.
Quote of the day by Richard Feynman: "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of…" - a powerful reflection on choice and consequences
Science News: Some of the most memorable lines are powerful precisely because they manage to say something genuinely complicated in just a few words. This one, ofte.
New Zealand’s world’s heaviest parrot was on the brink with only 51 birds left; now after decades of intensive conservation by wildlife experts, its population has surged to 325
Science News: New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō, the world’s heaviest parrot, has reached a remarkable conservation milestone after decades of intensive ef.