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The number of children being born is falling in many countries, including South Korea JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images The global population will peak at 8.6 billion in 2050 and decline to 7 billion by 2100 if current trends continue.…
Some 500 years ago, a city-living, human-biting form of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti began to hitch rides out of West African ports during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It spread to the Americas and then to Asia, causing centuries…
An embryo developing in the uterus at 8 weeks, 9 weeks and 10 weeks Dr Carsten Pietersma, Erasmus MC Embryos may develop more slowly in certain pregnancies that end in miscarriage, according to a study that uses virtual reality to…
Wastewater samples at Biobot’s lab Jeremy Hsu Thousands of wastewater samples from sewage systems across the US get flown and trucked to a lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, every week. Inside the facility, which is owned by the company Biobot Analytics,…
A new cooling material can be made in a variety of colours Qingchen Shen A colourful material made from wood cools down even when under direct sunlight, meaning it could be used to decorate the outside of buildings while lowering…
Cell types in a mouse’s brain, coloured according to their type Cindy van Velthoven The most detailed cellular map of a mouse’s brain to date could deepen our understanding of how the organ evolved in mammals and what goes wrong…
A shell from a snail in the family Achatinidae, similar to those thought to have been cooked at Border Cave in South Africa Marine Wojcieszak Broken bits of shells found in a cave in South Africa have given researchers the…
The “jaws” of a Venus flytrap attached to a robotic arm Wenlong Li Venus flytraps can be tricked into snapping shut on command, researchers have shown, effectively turning them into biological robots that can be controlled wirelessly. The Venus flytrap…
The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider The ATLAS Collaboration A tantalising discrepancy from the standard model of particle physics hasn’t persisted in new results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While the previous result created a frenzy of…
This wound-monitoring smart patch could one day be used to speed healing in humans – so far it has been tested in mice and rats Wei Gao, California Institute of Technology A stretchy bandage that can monitor wounds, release drugs…
