A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flies carrying a payload of 22 Starlink satellites into space. Argentina on Monday gave authorization for the deployment of Starlink, the satellite internet service of Elon Musk—a fan of the South American country’s self-styled new “anarcho-capitalist” President Javier Milei. In a decision published in the government gazette, Argentina’s Enacom communications … Read more
The former Canberra scientist Dr Weliton Menário Costa said it âfelt like winning Eurovisionâ when he learned he had won the global âDance Your PhDâ competition, for his quirky interpretive take on kangaroo behaviour. His four-minute video titled Kangaroo Time features drag queens, twerking, ballerinas, a classical Indian dancer, and a bunch of friends Costa … Read more
Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Numbers define our lives. How many bedrooms we have in our homes. How many times it took us to pass our driving test. … Read more
Citizen science can help to improve conservation and management strategies for Mediterranean marine ecosystems, and to mitigate the impact of the environmental crisis. This is the conclusion of a study by the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), which highlights the scientific rigour of the work carried out by volunteers in … Read more
The small town of Ecaussinnes is home to Belgium’s second largest petrochemical complex, and microplastic pollution has been a problem here for decades. Buried in the soil, dotting riverbanks and bobbing along streams: a small Belgian town has waged a years-long fight against creeping pollution from plastic pellets—which the EU now has in its sights. … Read more
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter One of the world’s smallest fish discovered only three years ago uses a special drumming mechanism to produce sounds as loud as a pneumatic drill, a new study … Read more
A new study shows that UK solar parks, if managed correctly, can provide vital resources to help stem the decline in the nation’s bees and butterflies. The new research, led by scientists at Lancaster University and in collaboration with the University of Reading, has been published in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence. It provides … Read more
Ph.D. student Lee-Lun Lai loads a tray into a 3D microprinter to demonstrate how polymer transistors can be made faster, cheaper and more sustainably. Credit: David Callahan-KTH Royal Institute of Technology The speed of innovation in bioelectronics and critical sensors gets a new boost with the unveiling of a simple, time-saving technique for the fast … Read more
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador slammed YouTube as “authoritarian” after it edited a video of his news conference during which he disclosed the private telephone number of a … Read more
Students tend to like friendly teachers, but they like those who believe they can improve even more, new research indicates. Students in a study still responded positively to instructors described as being cold but who also had a growth mindset, meaning they felt students’ ability in a subject could improve by working hard and trying … Read more
