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Plans to relax planning laws in “investment zones” in parts of England and to abandon a scheme that rewards farmers for protecting wildlife are being widely condemned by environmentalists, including the Wildlife Trusts, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds…
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft beamed back its final moments before colliding with the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to change its orbit, and the collision was captured by telescopes on Earth Space 27 September 2022 By Alex Wilkins…
“Bird brain” insults be damned. The noggins of our flying friends are packed with neurons, and recent studies have shown birds can develop complex tools and even discriminate between paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso. But is this avian…
BALTIMORE—Second by second, as a NASA satellite hurtled toward a pile of rocks in space, scientists gathered at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University issued their unfiltered analysis. “It doesn’t look like any asteroid I’ve ever seen!” “That’s…
Three days after Hurricane Fiona tore its way through Puerto Rico, Ileana Rodríguez-Velez arrived at her laboratory, which had lost power, not knowing what to expect. A chemist at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Humacao, Rodríguez-Velez opened a refrigerator…
Nearly 3 years into the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 faces a formidable challenge: finding new ways around the immunity humans have built up through vaccines and countless infections. Worrisome new data show it is up to the challenge. Several new and highly…
By Luke Taylor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (left) and Jair Bolsonaro are the main presidential contenders in the Brazilian election Foto Arena LTDA/Alamy The upcoming Brazilian election will decide the fate of the Amazon rainforest, ecologists have warned, as…
The forests of the Maya Biosphere Reserve are growing rather than shrinking, because of a community-led conservation programme Environment 26 September 2022 By Luke Taylor Tikal National Park is part of the Maya Forest in Guatemala Mariana Diaz/WCS A community-led…
Planets orbiting M-class red dwarf stars have been suggested as some of the most promising places to look for alien life, but now it seems powerful outbursts from the stars could render them uninhabitable Space 26 September 2022 By Alex…
In 2020, Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, and his colleagues published a sensational result in Nature, featured on its cover. They claimed to have discovered a room-temperature superconductor: a material in which electric current flows frictionlessly…
