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Saturn moon has ‘almost all the basic requirements of life as we know it’
While one key ingredient remains elusive, scientists say evidence is growing that it’s there.
Cow mucus lube shows promise as condom alternative
Don’t want to wear a condom? How about just smearing some cow mucus down there?
Alert Level at Taupō Volcano, one of the world’s biggest, lifted for the first time ever
The alert level at one of the world’s biggest supervolcanos has been raised.
Might alien civilisations be hostile?
The debate over whether there’s a malicious alien race out there we need to avoid is heating up.
Why our brains decided the lockdowns weren’t worth remembering
It’s not really clear what exactly causes these memory glitches.
The lonely tuatara just got a new family member – but it’s long-dead
A long-lost cousin of the tuatara which lived alongside the dinosaurs has been discovered. A nearly complete skeleton of what’s been dubbed Opisthiamimus gregori has been found in the US state of Wyoming – pretty far from the tuatara’s native homeland of New Zealand. It dates back 150 million years,
New facemask can warn you if the person you’re talking to has COVID
What if rather than waiting to get sick, you could find out if you’ve been exposed via an app?
Which foods can we eat past the ‘best before’ date?
‘Best before’ assessments can be highly subjective.
Even if fatty food tasted of nothing we’d likely still crave it – study
Think fatty food is addictive because it tastes good? Bad news.
Music festivals, religious gatherings could pose ‘highest level of transmission risk’ for COVID-19
People in large groups tend to mingle in a way that gives diseases like COVID-19 the best chance of spreading, a new study has found. At the beginning of the pandemic it became clear much transmission of the virus behind the disease happened in ‘superspreader’ events – one person infecting
Third of unvaccinated have no antibodies against COVID a year after infection
But only 2 percent of those who were vaccinated had run out.
Some of NZ’s COVID precautions scrapped prematurely – experts
The decision to end most public health measures received a mixed response.
Ancient fish’s 380 million-year-old heart preserved intact
Scientists in Australia say they’ve discovered the oldest-ever fossilised heart.
‘Dinosaur mummy’ found poking out of Canadian cliff
It might be the best–preserved dinosaur found yet.
Dreams are for keeping the brain warm, not learning – scientist
Do androids dream of electric… heaters?
How the world screwed up the global COVID-19 response
“Multiple failures of global cooperation”, are to blame, according to a new report.
Animal farming might predate cultivation, study on poo finds
Prehistoric humans might have been herding animals before they figured out how to farm crops.
Earthquakes keep hitting one of the world’s biggest supervolcanoes
And they seem to be getting stronger.
The very unsurprising reason bad weather seems to reduce violent crime
Contrary to the film noir myth, it turns out violent crime actually drops when it rains.
