Emily Smith

Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau arealingqi xie/Getty By Colin BarrasCannabis may have had high origins. Where the plant comes from has been a bit of a mystery, but analysis of ancient pollen now suggests it evolved some 3 kilometres above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. Intriguingly, this site is…

Technology 17 May 2019 Froiland Rivera/EyeEm/GettyBy Jon Cartwright Seeing the out-of-sight has turned a new corner. Now, digital cameras can take an image of an object hidden around a wall, which could help autonomous cars detect hazards in blind spots. In principle, any vertical edge can act as an accidental camera, by projecting subtle patterns…

Health | Analysis 16 May 2019 Activists protest outside of the US Supreme Court, during the March for Life in Washington in JanuaryJose Luis Magana/AP/REX/Shutterstock By Chelsea WhyteThe most restrictive abortion bill in any US state has just been signed into state law, outlawing abortions in Alabama at any stage of pregnancy. The law will…

Are we just making things up? | Everything theoretical physicists do is speculative, and likely wrong, except for the things we get right Physics | Comment 15 May 2019 ShutterstockBy Chanda Prescod-Weinstein RECENTLY, I visited a prestigious physics department and gave a presentation about my research on a particle called the axion. Fifteen minutes in,…

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Olivia Rossanese outside the unfinshed Cancer Drug Discovery CentreJohn Angerson/The Institute of Cancer Research By Michael Le PageAll treatments for cancer should be designed to prevent tumours evolving resistance, because drug-resistant tumours are what kill most people, says Paul Workman, head of the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK. To make this happen, the…