“A human mind-melded to a rat could move with the rodent, and smell and feel what it sensed…” Shutterstock/Linda Bestwick In T. H. White’s series of novels The Once and Future King, the wizard Merlyn turns the young Arthur, future king of England, into a variety of animals. As a small fish, Arthur swims in…
“Have you ever seen a fungus move in real life?” Episode 2 of the new season of The Last of Us HBO There was something I loved and something I hated in the first season of The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic TV show based on the hit video game of the same name, in…
Living things produce “biophotons” Tim Robberts/Getty Images All living things, including humans, constantly emit a ghostly glow – and it appears to vanish almost as soon as we die. Monitoring this signal could one day help track forest health or even detect diseases in people. The existence of this barely perceptible glow has been controversial,…
When Michael Collins floated above the far side of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, he knew he would be remembered as the loneliest human in history. He recalled feeling unafraid, almost exultant, thinking about everything on the other side of the moon: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface…
An international agreement to prepare for future pandemics is adopted. What does it mean? Source link
In September 2023, a bizarre global seismic signal was observed which appeared every 90 seconds over nine days — and was then repeated a month later. Almost a year later, two scientific studies proposed that the cause of these seismic anomalies were two mega tsunamis which were triggered in a remote East Greenland fjord by…
A juvenile chimpanzee drumming in Bossou, Guinea Cyril Ruoso/naturepl.com Musicality may have emerged in a common ancestor of chimps and humans, as both species share similarities in how they drum. Catherine Hobaiter at the University of St Andrews, UK, and her colleagues examined 371 examples of drumming from two of Africa’s four chimpanzee subspecies: the…
Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four metres of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of years according to a study now published in Communications Earth & Environment, co-authored by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research…
Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist Stockton Rush’s wife Wendy asks “what’s that bang?” in footage that appears in new BBC documentary The moment that Oceangate’s Titan submersible was lost has been revealed in footage recorded on the sub’s support ship. Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a descent to see the wreck of the Titanic…
ing time in or around nature can provide people suffering from chronic lower back pain with a degree of escapism that helps them better manage their physical discomfort, a new study has shown. The research, published in The Journal of Pain, is the first of its kind to ask people experiencing chronic lower back pain…
