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A talent for murder: Agatha Christie is one of the world’s bestselling writers Shutterstock/Doodeez V Is for VenomKathryn Harkup (Bloomsbury Sigma) Agatha Christie’s five-decade writing career saw her poison dozens of her characters, supplying the killers in her stories with an ***ortment of deadly chemicals, including poisons and venoms produced by living organisms and delivered via Continue Reading
Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darín) braves the killer snow in Buenos Aires Mariano Landet/Netflix The EternautNetflix To make good art, you must be specific. Perhaps that is too sweeping a statement – and so rather contradictory – but it is a fundamental principle I live by. It is no good chasing the lowest common denominator in the Continue Reading
Should politicians ensure that AI helps us colonise the galaxy, or protect people from the overreach of big tech? The former sounds more fun, but it shouldn’t be the priority. Among the Silicon Valley set, superintelligent AI is viewed as a rapidly approaching inevitability, with tech CEOs promising that the 2030s will see a golden Continue Reading
Ticks carry more zoonotic pathogens than any other known vector Sergey Aleshin/Getty Images Tucked away in a ground-floor lab in Richmond, Virginia, is a bank of industrial freezers containing thousands of transparent, thumb-sized plastic tubes. Each is filled with a clear, yellowish fluid – blood serum taken from opossums, raccoons, black bears, coyotes, vultures and Continue Reading
Ice could offer a way of storing messages long-term in cold environments Anton Petrus/Getty Images Information could potentially be stored in ice for millennia, simply by making subtle changes to the shape and position of internal bubbles, which can then be converted into binary or Morse codes. Mengjie Song at the Beijing Institute of Technology Continue Reading
Climate change will reduce the supply of most staple crops, including corn Jon Rehg/Shutterstock Rising global temperatures are likely to cause deep losses to the world’s most important crops – despite farmers’ best efforts to adapt. A global ***ysis of crop yields suggests that, by the end of the century, each degree Celsius of warming Continue Reading
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Hominin cranium from Harbin, China, now identified as a Denisovan Hebei GEO University The Denisovans, a mysterious group of ancient humans originally identified purely from DNA, finally have a face. Using molecular evidence, Qiaomei Fu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing and her colleagues have confirmed what many researchers suspected: that Continue Reading
Bogong moths migrate to cool caves in the summer Dr. Ajay Narendra/Macquarie University, Australia An Australian moth that migrates over 1000 kilometres to seek respite from summer heat is the first known invertebrate to use the stars as a compblock on long journeys. Every spring, billions of bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) travel from various parts Continue Reading
Last November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that, as secretary of health and human services, he would not “take away anybody’s vaccines.” If you believed him, you were duped. The longtime anti-vaccine crusader remains intent on vilifying lifesaving immunizations and promoting the lie that the shots cause autism and all manner of other conditions. Maybe Continue Reading
