Новости за 11.10.2023

Just as the power sector looks set to reach peak carbon emissions, the rise of AI use brings a new pressure on our energy requirements

If space-time is expanding, then why does gravity seem to pull things together? Physics can be weird, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

The lab-grown meat industry needs to perfect and normalise the staples, like chicken and beef, before jumping to exotic alternatives like mammoth, argues Brian Kateman

Julia Robinson explains how quantum dots went from a theoretical prediction to everyday reality and earned Alexei Ekimov, Louis Brus and Moungi Bawendi the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry

A star behaving strangely was the first clue that astronomers were witnessing two Neptune-sized planets smashing into each other, creating a doughnut that may one day birth a new planet and moons

An analysis has found that Bordeaux wines made in years with wet winters and hot, dry summers – which are becoming more common as a result of climate change – are judged more highly by wine critics

Two new major studies could improve medicine, answer questions about ancestry

Røttingen will oversee one of the world’s largest nongovernmental funders of scientific research

Understanding cold-tolerant enzyme could help with transplant organ preservation

As a child, I remember my mother telling me something she learned when she was an eye nurse – dogs are colourblind. Now, if I remember rightly, she didn’t mean they could only see in black and white as research in the 1940s had suggested, but that they had limited receptivity to the full colour … Continue reading "Do dogs live in a black and white world?"

Livestock pathogen normally seen in warmer climes arrived mysteriously in the Netherlands, portending repeat of major epidemic in mid-2000s

Transfer of 7 million dried samples to distant site will hamper research, scientists say

Queen Thyra, the mother of King Harald Bluetooth, was commemorated on four runestones in different parts of Denmark – suggesting she was a powerful figure

Frog mating can be a competitive and sometimes deadly affair as many males compete for females – but females have some tricks to avoid unwanted attention

Orcas hunting a seal, duelling Nubian ibexes and a stunning horseshoe crab appear in winning images from this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition