Leo Wilson 
Post Office should be sold to Amazon for £1, Alan Bates says Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The “dead duck” Post Office should be sold to Amazon for £1 to get a better service for the public, Alan … Read more
Among the vast expanse of Antarctica lies the Thwaites Glacier, the world’s widest glacier measuring about 80 miles on the western edge of the continent. Despite its size, the massive landform is losing about 50 billion tons of ice more than it is receiving in snowfall, which places it in a precarious position in respect … Read more
Image of a ‘water-wave skyrmion’ (i.e., a structure where the water-surface particles of certain area are displaced in all possible directions, mapped onto the sphere of directions) in the interference of three plane water waves with the same frequency and amplitude but different propagation directions. Credit: Smirnova et al Topological wave structures are wave patterns … Read more
Microplastics have been found in every human placenta tested in a study, leaving the researchers worried about the potential health impacts on developing foetuses. The scientists analysed 62 placental tissue samples and found the most common plastic detected was polyethylene, which is used to make plastic bags and bottles. A second study revealed microplastics in … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Adidas has said it had started a third sale of the Yeezy sneakers it was left with after severing ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye … Read more
As part of the New Deal, several governmental programs were created to expand homeownership through mortgages and loans. However, neighborhoods with primarily Black or immigrant communities often were rated “hazardous” for repayment under the discriminatory, “redlining” practice that restricted lending. Today, those same areas are exposed to more air pollution than other urban neighborhoods, and … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed a “self-driving” lab that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems to provide in-depth analyses of catalytic reactions used in chemical research and manufacturing. The new tool, called Fast-Cat, can provide more information in five days than is possible in six months of conventional testing. The research paper, … Read more
One of the worldâs smallest fish, measuring about the width of an adult human fingernail, can make a sound as loud as a gunshot, scientists have said. The male Danionella cerebrum, a fish of about 12mm found in the streams of Myanmar, produces sounds that exceed 140 decibels, according to the study published in the … Read more
Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news A player-of-the-match award in only his second Test, plaudits from the pundits and even a “man crush” from his England counterpart — India wicketkeeper Dhruv … Read more
Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical biodiversity and the way the ecosystem functions. Yet, the current understanding of the consequences is fragmentary: previous studies tended to examine either biodiversity or the ecosystem. An international research team led by the universities of Göttingen in Germany and Bogor in Indonesia … Read more
