Collision between boat and basking shark captured by camera tag
[ad_1] Images from a camera attached to a basking shark before, during and after a collision with a boat Big Fish Lab at Oregon State
Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever
[ad_1] Jacklyn Gates at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory separating atoms of livermorium Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab 2024 The Regents of the University of California The third-heaviest
Why slow running could be even more beneficial than running fast
[ad_1] Shutterstock/Paolo Paradiso For many runners, going fast is the whole point of pulling on their kit. But recently, the opposite approach has been booming: the
Can solar panels designed for space boost clean energy on Earth?
[ad_1] An Oxford PV solar module with layers of perovskite and silicon Oxford PV The most efficient solar cell ever made can convert almost half
Could we set Uranus on fire to steal its hidden diamonds?
[ad_1] Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in
How diseases like smallpox survived long ocean voyages
[ad_1] Christopher Columbus’s expedition to the Americas arrived with diseases on board William J. Aylward/Granger Historical Picture Archive / Alamy It is common knowledge that
Robot dog can stifle weeds by blasting them with a flamethrower
[ad_1] A robot dog equipped with a flamethrower could be used to stop weeds growing on farms, potentially offering a replacement for harmful herbicides. Even
Online exercise: If your gym instructor is an iPad, what is lost – and gained?
[ad_1] FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images I have never attended the same gym as Eric Drinkwater, a sports scientist at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In
What is the optimal amount of exercise and how much is too much?
[ad_1] Panayiotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto via Getty Images The benefits of exercise are so great that if it were a drug, it would be a miracle cure.
Universe’s missing matter may be explained by galaxies leaking gas
[ad_1] Galaxies like Andromeda have a supermassive black hole at the centre NASA/JPL-Caltech Supermassive black holes appear to be more powerful than our theories suggest,