On July 1, Italian police made the largest amphetamine seizure in the world. At the port of Salerno, just south of Naples, they used chainsaws to open large cylinders of paper and industrial machinery that were inside shipping containers from Syria and found 14 tonnes of pills. In Hong Kong, customs officials seized record numbers […]
By Jason Arunn Murugesu A web constructed from synthetic spider silkLee et al., Sci. Robot. Material scientists have made artificial spider webs that attract objects and shake off water, just like the real thing. They hope that the material could one day be used to help robots self-clean. Won Jun Song at Seoul National University […]
I am a third-generation member of a farming family in Honduras. I fondly remember getting up before dawn every day and riding several miles on the back of a mule to join in the family coffee harvest. You get involved in everything from tasting the coffee berries to see if they are ready, to picking […]
By Adam Vaughan Wildfires across Siberia are one consequence of the heatwave thereYevgeny Sofroneyev/TASS via Getty Images The record-breaking heatwave that has baked Siberia for the past six months was made at least 600 times more likely because of climate change, which researchers say mean it is “effectively impossible” for it to have occurred without the […]
Half of the world’s people already live in urban areas, and that number will only grow in the future. Is this bad news for biodiversity? Not necessarily. Towns and cities can be home to a surprising amount of wildlife – if they’re managed appropriately. Pollinating insects help provide many of the delicious foods that city […]
It’s now official: from the end of this year, 5G deployment in the UK will happen without Huawei’s equipment. After two decades providing infrastructure for the country’s 2G, 3G and 4G networks, the Chinese giant has been barred from taking part in the UK’s plans for next-generation connectivity. After the end of this year, UK […]
The winner of this year’s Worst Kept Secret award might be Apple, which surprised exactly no one when it announced plans to develop and ship a new line of personal computers based on its own Arm-powered Apple silicon in place of Intel CPUs. My web browser practically overheated trying to load all the red hot […]
By Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool Scientist Xinhua Yan works in the lab at Moderna in Cambridge, MA.David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 15 July Moderna coronavirus vaccine candidate deemed safe in first human trial A […]
I forget the Sun is a star. I think we all do sometimes. It’s easy to take for granted. The Sun is that glowing thing that rises in the morning and sets in the evening that we don’t generally pay attention to as we go about our day. However, there are these rare moments when […]
Private sector banks in the UK should have a central role in financing climate action and supporting a just transition to a low carbon economy. That’s according to a new report from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. Framed as a strategic opportunity that climate change represents for investors, the report […]