Humans 20 June 2019 When would you return a lost wallet?dblight/Getty By Jessica HamzelouThe average person is more honest than we think – and is actually more likely to hand in a found wallet if it has more money in it. This is probably partly down to altruism, but also because most people don’t want…
Life 20 June 2019 Grey seals have been trained to mimic human sounds By New Scientist staff and Press AssociationThree grey seals have been trained to copy speech, as well as notes from music including the Star Wars theme and the nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Vincent Janik and colleagues at the University of…
Space 20 June 2019 LightSail 2 will be propelled by sunshineThe Planetary Society By Leah CraneSpaceX is set to launch an experimental spacecraft next week on the third flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket. The craft, called LightSail 2, was developed by space advocacy group The Planetary Society and harnesses sunshine to “sail” through the…
It’s not enough to call climate change an emergency, says Adam Vaughan. We need to take emergency action as well Environment | Comment 20 June 2019 Strikes by schoolchildren have driven action on climate changeSean Gallup/Getty By Adam VaughanClimate emergencies are a bit like buses. You wait an age for one and then three come…
Life 20 June 2019 An artist’s impression of the hybrid whale Markus Bühler By Adam VaughanThe first evidence has been uncovered to show two of the Arctic’s most majestic marine creatures cross-bred. DNA analysis of an unusually shaped whale skull in a Danish museum suggests the creature was a hybrid born of a mother narwhal, a species…
Space 20 June 2019 Is Phobos an asteroid? We may find outNASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona By Chelsea WhyteMars’s twin moons may soon get a visitor. We’ve never landed anything on Phobos and Deimos, but we have taken pictures of their surfaces from orbiters around Mars. Now, a mission headed by JAXA, the Japanese space agency, is…
A 3200-year-old sanctuary once described as the Sistine Chapel of Hittite religious art could have acted as a calendar that was centuries ahead of its time Humans 19 June 2019 Some call Yazılıkaya in Turkey the Sistine Chapel of Hittite religious artGetty By Colin BarrasFOR 3200 years they have guarded their secret. The deities carved…
No planet B | With biblical floods and famine on the cards, the fight against global warming needs faiths to get serious about green issues Environment | Comment 19 June 2019 Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty ImagesBy Graham Lawton IN 2011, when the Republican party took back the US House of Representatives from the Democrats, one of…
There’s no doubt everyone should vaccinate – but to combat “anti-vax” we must understand the legitimate reasons for some communities’ mistrust, says Furaha Asani Health | Comment 19 June 2019 Josie FordBy Furaha Asani MEASLES is making a shocking return to the US. At the heart of this return is a growing reluctance by some…
Life 18 June 2019 Seals can control their dive reflexJessica Kendall-Bar By Michael Le PageWe can now monitor what happens inside diving animals in unprecedented detail thanks to a non-invasive way of recording blood flow and oxygen levels in their brain. The first study with this device shows seals consciously reduce blood flow to their…
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