Fat innkeeper worms typically burrow under the sand but recent storms have swept away layers, leaving them exposed. A beachgoer holds a fat inkeeper worm – otherwise known as a ‘penis fish’ – in Bodega Bay in June 2019. Photograph: Kate Montana/iNaturalist Creative …
By Loz Blain – Futurus believes the cars of the near future will roll with all-singing, all-dancing augmented reality windscreens. Futurus. – Heads-up displays have all kinds of potential applications, but what if your car’s entire windscreen was a gigantic mixed reality display, capable …
By Nick Lavars – Scientists are reporting promising results from a year-long study where soundwaves were used to heat and destroy prostate cancers. Decade3d/Depositphotos. – Treating prostate cancer through traditional means such as surgery or radiotherapy carries certain risks, with some patients experiencing impotence, …
Ancient humans had the building blocks of modern language, scientists say. By Alexandra Pattillo – For more than fifty years, scientists have thought that the origin of speech depended on one pivotal moment 200,000 years ago. That’s when the human larynx descended, …
By ICAST – Fix global warming or cook dinner on a gas stove? That’s the choice for people in 13 cities and one county in California and one town in Massachusetts that have enacted new zoning codes encouraging or requiring all-electric new construction. The codes, most of them passed …
Forest Products firm will boost economy of Northeast New Mexico. Cimarrón – The State of New Mexico is investing $350,000 in Lance Forest Products LLC, which is relocating a sawmill business to Cimarrón as part of an effort to reinvigorate the timber sector …
By Ben Coxworth – Assoc. Prof. Xianming Shi, with a container of grape-skin extract. Washington State University. – Commonly known as road salt, the sodium chloride that’s commonly used to de-ice highways is harmful to the environment, plus it corrodes both road materials and …
Archaeologists now can more closely date when the religion spread to the Aksumite Empire. At an archaeological site in Ethiopia, researchers are uncovering the oldest Christian basilica in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ioana Dumitru). By Andrew Lawler Smithsonian.Com – In the dusty highlands of northern …
Animal welfare and sustainability never felt so healthy. By Nina Pullano – Eating healthy is hard. Choosing a diet to follow can feel like starring on The Bachelorette. Keto or intermittent fasting? Atkins or the blood type diet? Which one is your perfect …
By James Holloway – Andrew Whitworth took the People and Nature award for this remarkable shot of a female three-toed sloth crossing a road. Andrew Whitworth and the British Ecological Society. The British Ecological Society has unveiled the winners of its Capturing Ecology …
