News
Tomatoes drawing by Lucille Clerc, from Around the World in 80 Plants. Photograph: Lucille Clerc – Did you know that tomatoes respond to a high C note? Or that the prickly pear made red fabric popular, and yams helped create the contraceptive pill? …
Cloudscape of Haikou is situated on the coastline in Hainan Province, facing the South China Sea. Archexist View 11 Images – By Adam Williams 2021 Apr 23 – MAD Architects wowed us with its initial concept for the Wormhole Library and happily the finished …
Lava tubes in Hawaii, which may be similar to caves on Mars, where new research suggests microbial life could be living today. volgariver/Depositphotos By Michael Irving 2021 Apr 22 – One of the main goals of NASA’s Perseverance rover is to scour the surface …
Scientists have created human-monkey chimera embryos for the first time. everett225/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2021 Apr 15 – In a breakthrough new study, scientists have created human-monkey chimera embryos for the first time. These chimeras pave the way for more accurate models of …
Aerial view of Lake Powell on the Colorado River along the Arizona-Utah border. AP Photo/John Antczak – By Robert Glennon, Regents Professor and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy, University of Arizona 2021 Apr 19 – Interstate water disputes are …
Understanding how other animals dream could help us figure out why it’s so important to the human brain, and why it may have been preserved throughout history. Photograph: Alamy – By Sara Harrison 2021 Apr 16 07:00 AM – Fruit flies, octopuses, birds, …
The Aska is a four-seat street-legal car concept that auto-folds out into a six-rotor transitioning eVTOL. NFT Aska – By Loz Blain 2021 Apr 18 – Spoiler: it has a hefty price tag. But then, the Aska would be a remarkable vehicle: a spacious, …
Archeologists excavate Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria, where three modern human specimens were found to have recent Neanderthal DNA. MPI-EVA/ Nikolay Zaheriev – By Michael Irving 2021 Apr 11 – Two new genetic studies have shed light on just how often our ancestors got …
Police stand near the scene where multiple people were shot at the FedEx Ground facility on 2021 Apr 16, in Indianapolis. AP Photo/Michael Conroy – By Lacey Wallace, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State 2021 Mar 29 — Updated 2021 Apr 16 …
Artist’s impression of Monkeydactyl, or Kunpengopterus antipollicatus. Chuang Zhao – By Nick Lavars 2021 Apr 12 – It’s a common view that opposable thumbs are a key feature that distinguishes us from most other species, but a flying reptile that clambered through the trees …
