What is ‘creepy’ technology for children?
Many parents express concerns about privacy and online safety in technology designed for their children. But we know much less about what children themselves find concerning in emerging technologies.
Now...
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Bristol academic cracks Voynich code, solving century-old mystery of medieval text
A University of Bristol academic has succeeded where countless cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programs have failed - by cracking the...
Do you need to dominate a coffee addict? Make him smell some coffee
Regular coffee drinkers can sniff out even tiny amounts of coffee and are faster at recognising the aroma, compared to non-coffee drinkers, new research has found.
Habitual coffee drinkers are...
Why most solar systems have super-earths but not ours?
New research improves our understanding of how large super-Earth planets with small, quick orbits form.
The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the solar system,...
Why water dances and skitters on very hot surfaces?
Rather than sizzling and evaporating on super hot surfaces, water droplets instead stay intact, dancing and skittering over the surface in what’s known as the Leidenfrost effect.
Now researchers...
Nixon had a speech ready in case the astronauts who went to the Moon...
The Apollo XI mission in 1969, when Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the Moon, was a historic milestone and a great triumph of (american) technique.
At the time, however,...
A species requires high genetic diversity to ensure its long-term survival… but narwhal
A narwhal discovery challenges the idea that genetic diversity is necessary for a species to survive.
Researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark sequenced the genome of a narwhal...
NASA records Mars earthquake for the first time
The seismometer installed on Mars has detected the first seismic tremor on the red planet.
It was last April 6 and a soft but distinctive seismic signal was detected, similar...
Global warming is ravaging life in the oceans
Global warming has caused twice as many ocean-dwelling species as land-dwelling species to disappear from their habitats, researchers report.
The greater vulnerability of sea creatures may significantly impact human communities...
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