Plastics were not made for human consumption, and yet we consume them. Tiny remnants of these synthetic polymers are now leaking into our air, food and water, and preventing them has become an almost impossible blow. A study of five popular seabirds, purchased from a market in Australia, shows just …
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If you see a face in a cloud, in the slots of a power point, or on the side of a house, there is a term for: face pareidolia. This strange perception phenomenon makes lifeless, busy objects appear to have facial features – the basic shapes of two eyes and …
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One of the main challenges in turning quantum technology from potential to reality is getting superfine quantum states to last longer than a few milliseconds – and scientists are simply lifting the bar by a factor of about 10,000. They did this by tackling what is called decoherence: that is, …
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Greenland’s ice sheet may have hit a tipping point that puts it on an irreversible path to disappear completely. Snowfall that normally fills the glaciers of Greenland every year can no longer keep up with the rate of ice melting, according to researchers from Ohio State University. This means that …
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Technology that can turn salty seawater into brackish water into safe, clean drinking water has the potential to transform millions of lives around the world, which is why so many scientists are working on projects to do just that. Now, a new innovation developed by scientists in Australia could be …
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