September 26, 2024A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change | Buried beneath as little as two meters of clay soil for millennia, a log buried some 3,700 years ago retained at least 95 percent of the carbon it drew from the air new studies estimate Science
September 26, 2024The use of circadian-informed lighting, where artificial lighting is synchronised to the natural biological rhythms or a person’s ‘body-clock’, significantly improves quality of sleep and work performance for night shift workers, a major new trial has found. Science
September 26, 2024Bacteria in kefir cheese found on 3,600 year-old mummies was likely made from cow and goat milk | Researchers were able to identify the samples found over 20 years ago, and a closer look at bacteria in the cheese has offered hints of how fermenting spread through Asia Science
September 26, 2024Tailwinds don’t help “everesting” cyclists | The physics of “everesting” on a bicycle Science
September 26, 2024Carbon bond that uses only one electron seen for first time: ‘It will be in the textbooks’ Science
September 26, 2024Northern sea robins use six crablike legs to dig in sand and find buried prey with a sense much like taste Science
September 26, 2024South Florida study finds mosquito populations increased dramatically after Hurricane Irma. 7.3 and 8 times more mosquitoes were captured during a four-week span after Hurricane Irma in 2017 than in the same period in 2016 and 2018, respectively Science
September 26, 2024Managing stress could be the key to helping highly impulsive people act rashly when bored Science
September 26, 2024Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight. A new study shows Mars’ early thick atmosphere could be locked up in the planet’s clay surface. Science
September 26, 2024Reactive dust from Great Salt Lake may have health consequences, including inflammation | Researchers found that the oxidative potential of the Great Salt Lake dust, which indicates how likely the dust is to generate reactive oxygen species, is generally higher than that of dust from nearby lakes Science
September 26, 2024More trans teens attempted suicide after states passed anti-trans laws, a study shows | State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA Science