Is it a severed foot? No, it’s a sea slug
[ad_1] Legless on the shore Extremities can bring confusion even to trained experts. Joanna Glengarry and Melanie Archer at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
Microphone made of atom-thick graphene could be used in smartphones
[ad_1] Reducing the size of the microphone in electronic devices would allow manufacturers to include more of them, increasing the capability for noise cancellation [ad_2]
Overheated trees are contributing to urban air pollution
[ad_1] A jacaranda tree outside the Los Angeles courthouse James Brown / Alamy Air pollution in Los Angeles from cars and human activity is getting
Sick chimpanzees seek out range of plants with medicinal properties
[ad_1] A chimpanzee in Budongo Forest, Uganda, feeding on the fruit of a sandpaper tree (Ficus exasperata) Elodie Freymann (CC-BY) Several plants eaten by chimpanzees
Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live forever?
[ad_1] In this week’s Future Chronicles column, which explores an imagined history of future inventions, we visit a cult in 2080s Japan that engineered a
Playing With Reality: Book explores how games shape the world – for better or worse
[ad_1] Scientists’ obsession with games like Go have inspired AI breakthroughs Robert Paul van Beets/Alamy Playing With RealityKelly Clancy (Allen Lane (UK); Riverhead (US)) Gaming is
Lokiceratops: Triceratops relative had the weirdest horns ever seen on a dinosaur
[ad_1] Artist’s impression of Lokiceratops encountering a crocodilian in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana ©Andrey Atuchin for the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark.
Watch leeches jump by coiling their bodies like cobras
[ad_1] For the first time, scientists have captured video of leeches leaping from leaves, settling a centuries-long dispute over the bloodsuckers’ ability to jump. The
Walking helps keep people free of lower back pain for longer
[ad_1] Being active has a range of health benefits Sergio Azenha/Alamy People who have recurring bouts of lower back pain seem to avoid the discomfort
Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?
[ad_1] NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It is currently about 8 billion kilometres from the