Are superconducting power lines the key to a cleaner grid?
[ad_1] Conventional high-voltage transmission lines lose a portion of the electric energy as heat Limbofu/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our climate newsletter Fix
Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat or dog ‘pen pal’
[ad_1] A drawing by a child who took part in the animal pen pal scheme Courtesy of YAPS and Anne Gillespie Seriously ill children and
AI discovers hundreds of ancient Nazca drawings in Peruvian desert
[ad_1] A 22-metre-long drawing depicting a killer whale holding a knife Masato Sakai Hundreds of ancient drawings depicting decapitated human heads and domesticated llamas have
Jo Dunkley interview: The astrophysicist who may be about to discover how the universe began
[ad_1] Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began in a big bang – or, at least, that is what we think happened. Astrophysicist Jo
Octopuses and fish hunt as a team to catch more prey
[ad_1] A day octopus hunting with a blue goatfish Eduardo Sampaio and Simon Gingins Octopuses are even more sophisticated than we thought. Despite generally being
Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests
[ad_1] Seawater is pumped onto the snow covering the sea ice in an effort to thicken the ice Real Ice/www.realice.eco A bold plan to pump
Forests became less diverse when ancient people started herding pigs
[ad_1] A domestic pig in the New Forest, UK 9 Deborah Lee Rossiter/Shutterstock Ancient DNA unearthed from a European rock shelter suggests that local herders
Is it really cheaper to cultivate your own fruit and vegetables?
[ad_1] Picking fresh chives Shutterstock/TG23 It is an article that seems to come around every year: the promise that the average family can save money
The Inner Clock review: How bad is modern life for our body clocks – and what can we do?
[ad_1] Humans defy internal clocks; the little penguin (pictured below) lives by them Alex Ramsay/Alamy The Inner ClockLynne Peeples (Out 24 September: Bloomsbury Tonic (UK);
An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the time
[ad_1] CAPTCHA tests try to sort humans from bots by asking users to identify objects in photos lilgrapher/Shutterstock An artificial intelligence can solve the CAPTCHA