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By Loz Blain – The Speeder flying motorcycle: Jetpack Aviation’s latest project. (Credit: Jetpack Aviation). If somebody tells you they’re building a flying motorcycle, it’s probably appropriate to reply “yeah, right.” But if that somebody is jetpack guru David Mayman, it’s worth your …
By Anthony Wood – Image of 2015 BZ509 captured by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, Arizona. (Credit: C. Veillet / Large Binocular Telescope Observatory). An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid orbiting the Sun at roughly the same distance as Jupiter …
By Matt Kennedy – Artist’s interpretation of the newly-named Suskityrannus hazelae. (Credit: Andrey Atuchin). In 1998, a 16 year old boy with a passion for paleontology unearthed a near-complete skeleton of one of Tyrannosaurus rex’s cousins in New Mexico. It was a defining moment …
By Rich Haridy – New research has revealed a 40 Hz flickering light can alter the expression of genes in neurons and microglia. (Credit: OlgaYakovenko/Depositphotos). Since 2016, a team of MIT neuroscientists has been exploring the strange hypothesis that external exposure to a light flickering …
By Rich Haridy – A pilot study is looking at whether CBD reduces cases of aggression and self-harm in children with intellectual disabilities, including autism. (Credit: Omstudio/Depositphotos). A pilot study is currently underway in Australia investigating the efficacy of medicinal cannabis as a …
Insects are ‘the glue in nature’, says Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, underpinning the food and water we rely on. By Damian Carrington Guardian Environment editor @dpcarrington – A Notch-horned Cleg, a type of horsefly. ‘While we humans have doubled our population in the past 40 …
By Rich Haridy – Another Nominated Entry prize winner, several skiers walk the summit of Mont Blanc before skiing down the north face. (Credit: Mathias Dumas / Skypixel). Skypixel’s 2018 Aerial Storytelling Contest winners have just been revealed offering an incredible array of …
By Loz Blain – A quarter of the world’s species are under threat of extinction. This tarsier appears to think he could be one of them. (Credit: igorot/Depositphotos). Earth stands to lose a massive 25 percent of its biodiversity, warned UNESCO Director-General Audrey …
By Nick Lavars – – The range of technologies designed to take suspicious drones out of the sky is growing wider and wider. (Credit: Nesterenko_Max/Depositphotos). Just as new uses for drones continue to surface (both good and bad), so too do ways to …
By Rich Haridy – The Human Touch by James Gifford, Human/Nature Winner, Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Credit: James Gifford / BigPicture). At a time when hours of incredible documentary vision of the natural world are just a click away it’s easy …
