Emily Smith

Activists blocked streets outside the Bank of England on 25 AprilMike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images By Adam VaughanHundreds of climate change campaigners will leave the streets of London today, following 11 days of protests that brought parts of the capital to a standstill and led to more than a thousand arrests. In a parting…

Environment 24 April 2019 Moving polluting industries out of the Beijing area could have unintended consequences Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Michael Le PageMany rich countries that appear to have cleaned up their act environmentally have actually outsourced manufacturing to countries with laxer standards – resulting in more pollution overall. Now the same thing…

La Chacra forest island in the Bolivian Llanos de MoxosJosé Capriles, PSU By Chelsea WhyteEvidence of human foragers have been found in the savannahs of the southwest Amazon that date back to between 4000 and 10,600 years ago. People are thought to have entered the area between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, but these groups…

Heart surgery could be helped by a catheter robotLEADBSIP SA/Alamy By Yvaine YeA robotic surgical device has learned to autonomously navigate inside a beating heart. Using only a small camera for vision, it successfully travelled to the correct location in the hearts of pigs for surgeons to then complete the operation. Pierre Dupont at Harvard…

The Chimera crab had a mix of strange featuresOksana Vernygora, University of Alberta By New Scientist staff and Press AssociationFossils of a mixed-up crab from the Cretaceous have perplexed researchers with their bizarre anatomical features. Around 70 of the fossil crabs have been found in the Andes mountain range in Colombia, which was a shallow…

Language evolves in a similar way to biology Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Alamy By Yvaine YeAlthough Chinese, Tibetan and Burmese languages sound completely different from one another, they are all derived from a common ancestral tongue. A new analysis suggests the ancient language might have emerged in northern China and spread to the south and west with agriculture.…

Signals from the brain can be converted into sounds by a computerMopic/Alamy By Chelsea WhyteElectrodes on the brain have been used to translate brainwaves into words spoken by a computer – which could be useful in the future to help people who have lost the ability to speak. When you speak, your brain sends signals from…