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Starwatch: worth staying up for pleasing view of moon encountering Jupiter and Gemini

13 October at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Conjunction just after midnight on 14 October will show brightest stars of Gemini shining brightly below moon

It is worth staying up for this pleasing view of the moon as it encounters Jupiter and the brightest stars of Gemini, the twins. The chart shows the view looking east from London at 00:30 BST in the very early morning of 14 October.

Gemini will have risen a little earlier and will now...

‘Lab to fab’: are promises of a graphene revolution finally coming true?

13 October at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Two decades after the material was first produced, some UK firms have reaped its potential but others are struggling

After graphene was first produced at the University of Manchester in 2004, it was hailed as a wonder material, stronger than steel but lighter than paper. But two decades on, not every UK graphene company has made the most of that potential. Some show promise but others are...

High youth death rates are an ‘emerging crisis’, global health study warns

12 October at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Alcohol, suicide and injuries driving rises among teenagers and young adults despite overall rates falling, authors say

The world faces “an emerging crisis” of higher death rates among teenagers and young adults, according to a major study on the causes of death and disability worldwide.

The reasons vary from drug and alcohol use, and suicide in North America, to infectious diseases and...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

12 October at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

Microplastics have been found almost everywhere: in blood, placentas, lungs – even the human brain. One study estimated our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of the stuff, or roughly a teaspoon. If true, plastic isn’t just wrapped around our food or woven into our clothes: it is...

Drummond Rennie obituary

10 October at 18:56 PM, via The Guardian

Doctor and medical editor who inaugurated the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

In deciding what research to publish and how to appraise it, medical journals bear a heavy responsibility – as seen when it goes awry. In 1998, for instance, the Lancet published a paper falsely linking autism with the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine. They retracted the...

Riding the Wild Wave of Crypto Coverage

10 October at 09:00 AM, via New York Times

David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter who has covered the cryptocurrency industry since 2022, has come to embrace learning on the fly.

Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight

09 October at 20:00 PM, via The Guardian

Before the Spanish study, some scientists had been sceptical about the mammals attacking migratory birds

Bats are generally viewed as harmless, if spooky, creatures of the night. But scientists have revealed a more savage side, after witnessing a greater noctule bat – Europe’s largest bat species – hunting, killing and devouring a robin mid-flight.

The grisly recording reveals the bat as a...

Sir Peter Hirsch obituary

09 October at 17:57 PM, via The Guardian

Scientist who transformed the understanding of materials and redefined our knowledge of crystallography

When Peter Hirsch produced the first images of defects or faults in crystalline structures using transmission electron microscopy at Cambridge University’s Rutherford Laboratory, he transformed our understanding of materials science and redefined our knowledge of crystallography.

In...

‘Ball junkie’: some dogs show signs of addiction, study finds

09 October at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers say terrier and shepherd breeds display greater tendency for addictive-type behaviour

Whether it is a spaniel with an insatiable love for a ball or a flat-coat that cannot be without its squeaky bear, dogs can be very keen on their toys. Now researchers say some may even show signs of addiction.

While humans can take a host of activities to excess, from work to shopping, only...

Sir John Gurdon obituary

09 October at 16:37 PM, via The Guardian

Biologist who won the Nobel prize for discovering that adult cells can be reprogrammed

The exciting possibility that mature body cells, such as skin cells, might be transformed and used to repair damaged hearts or brains was long seen as science fiction. Once a cell had reached its specialised mature state, biologists thought, it could not adopt another identity. John Gurdon, who has died aged...

Fertility, decay and renewal in Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies – in pictures

09 October at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

In this new book from the Melbourne photographer, Fruiting Bodies imagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor. Fungi are captured in various states of emergence as an uncanny stand-in for the female form – soft yet resilient, sensuous and enigmatic

Fruiting Bodies by Ying Ang is out now in Australia ($A70, Perimeter Editions)

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