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What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
A large roundabout in China. Jiojio/Moment via Getty Images Deogratias Eustace, University of Dayton If you live on…
People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets – new research
Yarlander / Shutterstock Karen Hardy, University of Glasgow and Stephen Buckley, University of York Seaweed isn’t something that…
Indo-European Languages: New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin
The Anatolian landscape in Turkey. lay london/Shutterstock Kim Schulte, Universitat Jaume I The languages in the Indo-European family…
Carl Sagan detected life on Earth 30 years ago – here’s how his experiment is helping us search for alien species today
Earth and Moon as seen by the Galileo spacecraft from a distance of 6 million km away. NASA…
The afterglow of an explosive collision between giant planets may have been detected in a far-off star system
A visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. Mark Garlick, Author provided Simon…
We landed a camera on Venus before seeing parts of our own oceans – it’s time to ramp up observations closer to home
Craig Stevens, University of Auckland and Natalie Robinson, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Viewed from the…
More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble
Pat James, Australian Antarctic Division Andrew J Constable, University of Tasmania and Jess Melbourne-Thomas, CSIRO While the Southern…
Glacial lake outburst floods in Alaska and the Himalayas show evolving hazards in a warming world
Glacial lakes are common in the Himalayas, as this satellite view shows. Some are dammed by glaciers, other…
New class of recyclable polymer materials could one day help reduce single-use plastic waste
Single-use plastics. Anton Petrus/Moment Katherine Harry, Colorado State University and Emma Rettner, Colorado State University Hundreds of millions…
Saltwater crocodiles are slowly returning to Bali and Java. Can we learn to live alongside them?
Shutterstock Brandon Michael Sideleau, Charles Darwin University On January 4 this year, a three-metre saltwater crocodile heaved itself…