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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…
Is it okay to kiss your pet? The risk of animal-borne diseases is small, but real
Shutterstock Sarah McLean, Swinburne University of Technology and Enzo Palombo, Swinburne University of Technology Our relationship with pets…
Marine heatwaves don’t just hit coral reefs. They can cause chaos on the seafloor
Shutterstock Amandine Schaeffer, UNSW Sydney; Alex Sen Gupta, UNSW Sydney, and Moninya Roughan, UNSW Sydney Most of us…
World’s beaches are changing because of climate change – green thinking is needed to save them
Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand Coastlines – the interface between land and sea – lie at the…
Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
Gail Iles, RMIT University In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended…
Why do fingers get wrinkly after a long bath or swim? A biomedical engineer explains
Those puckered prints show up after a while in the water. MarijaRadovic/iStock via Getty Images Guy German, Binghamton…
Setting the stage for a better understanding of complex brain disorders
Christos Ntanos, National Technical University of Athens We often compare the brain to a machine with wheels, cogs,…
Caroline Herschel was England’s first female professional astronomer, but still lacks name recognition two centuries later
The Herschel Museum in Bath, England, has a new display of a handwritten draft of Caroline Herschel’s memoirs.…
A battlefield for ants? New study on ant warfare shows we could manipulate their fights
Bruce Webber, CC BY-SA Samuel Lymbery, Murdoch University; Bruce Webber, CSIRO, and Raphael Didham, The University of Western…
Machines can’t always take the heat − two engineers explain the physics behind how heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers
Extreme heat can affect how well machines function, and the fact that many machines give off their own…