If a cat falls more than roughly 1 metre, it will land on its feet regardless of its starting position – unless it is ill or otherwise impaired. From this altitude, the cat has time to rotate in the air on its way down. Biologists talk about...
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A huge project to sequence the genomes of great apes is revealing how and when our own human ancestors came down from the trees. While science has focused on human DNA to unravel our family tree, new complete sequencing of various ape DNA is...
NASA is funding research into a giant space telescope which could use a ‘fluidic lens’ of salt water to ‘zoom in’ on distant stars and exoplanets which might harbour life. The James Webb Space Telescope was the largest that could possibly fit...
Traditional geophysics presents Earth’s core, mantle and crust as isolated zones. But new evidence from Hawaii suggests that it may be more like a lava lamp down there.
