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South Africa’s great white sharks are changing locations – they need to be monitored for beach safety and conservation
Alison Kock, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity; Alison Towner, Rhodes University; Heather Bowlby, Fisheries and Oceans Canada;…
Pollen in pee: fossilised urine from a small African mammal helps us understand past environments
The lessons pollen can teach us are not to be sneezed at. Elisa Manzati Lynne Quick, Nelson Mandela…
If anxiety is in my brain, why is my heart pounding? A psychiatrist explains the neuroscience and physiology of fear
In the face of a perceived threat, your body often activates a fight-or-flight response. George Peters/DigitalVision Vectors via…
How zinc-ion batteries may solve our renewable energy storage problem
Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate…
Finding a live brain worm is rare. 4 ways to protect yourself from more common parasites
Vincent Ho, Western Sydney University News reports this morning describe how shocked doctors removed a live worm from…
Wildfire smoke is an increasing threat to Canadians’ health
Ryan W. Allen, Simon Fraser University and Stephanie Cleland, Simon Fraser University Air quality in Canada has improved…
Sahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar System
Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Evgenii Krestianinov, Australian National University In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing…
Long COVID symptoms can improve, but their resolution is slow and imperfect
Pexels/Engin Akyurt Suman Majumdar, Burnet Institute and Brendan Crabb, Burnet Institute Around 5–10% of people who get infected…
International ransomware gangs are evolving their techniques. The next generation of hackers will target weaknesses in cryptocurrencies
Shutterstock/JLStock Alpesh Bhudia, Royal Holloway University of London; Anna Cartwright, Oxford Brookes University; Darren Hurley-Smith, Royal Holloway University…
What would an ancient Egyptian corpse have smelled like? Pine, balsam and bitumen – if you were nobility
Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Photo: Christian Tepper. Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and Barbara Huber, Max…