Mug shots: children as young as five make judgements based on faces
Children as young as five make stereotypical inferences about people’s behaviour and modify their own behaviour towards them based merely on facial characteristics, a new study suggests.
Discover Orkney’s business model that is pioneering the way towards 100% renewable energy
Scotland’s Orkney Islands – the world’s “poster child for sustainable development” – are edging closer to their 100% renewable energy goals.
Bilbies are more than Easter icons – they help out their mates
If you’re walking quietly through Australian bush this Easter you might get lucky – no chocolate eggs are likely to be hiding there but you could spot two little eyes peeking out of a burrow.
Meet the entrepreneur who is protecting biodiversity with video games and cryptocurrency
When Andrew Robinson and his wife Mallika were driving one day, they heard their son and his friends chatting about video games in the back seat of the car.
Vitamin D does not improve gastrointestinal cancer outcomes, clinical trial finds.
High doses of vitamin D do not improve survival rates for patients with gastrointestinal cancer, according to a new clinical trial.
Illuminating water filtration could reduce the energy costs of desalination
By revealing the molecular structure of membranes used to convert seawater to drinking water, researchers may have shed light on how to improve the membranes’ permeability and reduce the high energy cost of reverse osmosis.
If you could fly your car to work, how sustainable would it be?
Swelling road congestion has led to considerable interest and investment in electrical vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL), otherwise known as flying cars.
Parenting kids with behavioural issues
Parenting is hard work, and can be especially difficult if you have a child with behavioural problems.
New thermal battery could be a ‘game changer’ for storing renewable energy
A South Australian company has unveiled the world’s first operational thermal energy device (TED).
From 3D printing and wound healing to bioplastic and faux-cotton, seaweed just keeps on giving
Throughout history, cultures around the globe have enjoyed the nutritional and medical merits of seaweed.
Gene edited plants aid food security, researchers say
With renewed attention to implementation and regulation, new plant breeding technologies such as gene editing could make an important contribution to global food security, say a group of plant geneticists and economists.
You sound how you eat: speech evolved as diet changed
A surprising new study has revealed that diverse sounds produced by human speech not only evolved after Neolithic times, but also stem from biological alterations in the human bite as a result of eating softer diets.
Foods you’ve never heard of that could change the world
A food revolution is building in West Africa. Hundreds of women in land-locked Mali are harvesting the diverse potential of ancient plants and working with visionary entrepreneur Omar Barou Togola to create a market for them.
Garlic, onion linked to decreased bowel cancer risk
Eating lots of onions, garlic and leeks has been linked to reduced risk of bowel cancer in a Chinese study of more than 1600 volunteers.
