Brazilian election will determine the future of the Amazon rainforest:
Ecologists say that the re-election of president Jair Bolsonaro would severely harm the Amazon rainforest, while his rival Lula Ignacio de Silva is promising to reverse much of the recent environmental damage and meet climate change targets
Guatemala’s rainforest is expanding thanks to community efforts:
The forests of the Maya Biosphere Reserve are growing rather than shrinking, because of a community-led conservation programme
Deadly stellar radiation blasts 'habitable' exoplanets every few days:
Planets orbiting M-class red dwarf stars have been suggested as some of the most promising places to look for alien life, but now it seems powerful outbursts from the stars could render them uninhabitable
Spoofing cyberattack can make cameras see things that aren’t there:
A targeted transmission of radio waves can disrupt what a camera detects – and the technology has the potential to fool object-detection systems into seeing things that aren’t there
Scientists are slathering reefs with antibiotics to stop coral disease:
Researchers have resorted to applying antibiotics on corals to save Caribbean reefs from deadly disease, but there are concerns this could create antibiotic resistance in other marine animals
Robot navigates indoors by tracking anomalies in magnetic fields:
Metal pipes beneath the floor provide enough local disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field for an autonomous robot to work out where it is and navigate around a lab
Chronic fatigue syndrome linked to almost 200 genetic variants:
In a study of more than 2300 people with chronic fatigue syndrome, 91 per cent had these genetic variants, in a discovery that could improve diagnosis and treatment
Bowhead whales live longer thanks to mutation that also shrinks testes:
We may have discovered one of the key reasons for the extraordinary lifespans of bowhead whales, which can live for more than 200 years
Luck may influence us more than nurture, so let's give parents a break:
Emerging research suggests that, alongside genes and environment, much of who we become is down to chance occurrences in the developing brain. Does that mean parents are off the hook?
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