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Pulses are packed with goodness: Five cool things you should know about them
pbd Studio/shutterstock Nadia Radzman, University of Cambridge Each year on February 10, the United Nations commemorates what probably…
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: how satellites can help rescue efforts
Emilie Bronner, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES) In disasters like the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and 7.5-magnitude aftershock that…
New bird brain study shows evolving a big brain depends on having ‘good’ parents
A hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus). Tristan Barrington/Shutterstock Szymek Drobniak, UNSW Sydney As owners of some of the biggest…
Turkey-Syria earthquakes: a seismologist explains what has happened
Jenny Jenkins, Durham University An extremely large earthquake has occurred in the southeast of Turkey, near the border…
Can chewing help manage stress, pain and appetite? Here’s what the science says
Pexels/Anna Shvets Clare Collins, University of Newcastle Ever feel a bit stressed or need a concentration boost? Research…
Six parts of your car that gather data on you
New Africa/Shutterstock Rachael Medhurst, University of South Wales You can tell a lot about someone from the car…
‘Blue marble’: how half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth
Robert Poole, University of Central Lancashire; Nick Pepin, University of Portsmouth, and Oliver Gruner, University of Portsmouth In…
Our future could be full of undying, self-repairing robots. Here’s how
frank60/Shutterstock Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology With generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT and StableDiffusion…
The ocean twilight zone could store vast amounts of carbon captured from the atmosphere – but first we need to build a 4D system to track what’s going on down there
A large robot, loaded with sensors and cameras, designed to explore the ocean twilight zone. Marine Imaging Technologies,…
The world’s oldest fossils or oily gunk? New research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don’t contain signs of life
Saul Shepstein, Author provided Birger Rasmussen, The University of Western Australia and Janet Muhling, The University of Western…