Blood test detects Alzheimer’s plaques building up in brain
19 July 2017
Sticky plaques start forming in the brain 15 years before Alzheimer’s disease develops. A simple blood test may identify those at risk years in advance
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Spider waves its front legs like antennae to mimic warlike ants
11 July 2017
This sneaky jumping spider performs antics to fool predators in what is an unusual example of mimicry through behaviour, rather than appearance
There’s as much water in Earth’s mantle as in all the oceans
7 June 2017
The zone of mantle rock that sits 400 to 600 kilometres below our feet seems to be saturated with water
Seabed images show the scars icebergs carve into polar sea floor
26 April 2017
A new atlas shows scars gouged into polar sea floors by glaciers and icebergs in unprecedented detail, which could help our understanding of how they behave
Typhoon Haiyan’s electric spectacular in the eye of the storm
26 April 2017
Satellites reveal that one of the strongest tropical storms on record had unusual lightning in its core – which could be used to monitor storm intensity
Joint mission to Europa could seek life under the ice
24 April 2017
Space agencies have just been presented with a bold plan to search for aliens on Jupiter’s icy moon through a joint American-European mission
Plan to regrow receding Swiss glacier by blowing artificial snow
1 May 2017
An ambitious plan to save a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps with showers of artificial snow will be tested this summer
Bacteria engineered to produce living, full-colour photographs
22 May 2017
Gut bugs have been modified to turn red, green or blue when bathed in light of the corresponding colour so they create bacterial photocopies
Psychedelic drugs push the brain to a state never seen before
19 April 2017
Brain measurements have revealed that LSD, ketamine and psilocybin cause patterns of brain activity that are far more diverse than normal consciousness
Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight
31 May 2017
Through the activation of brain circuits with light, female voles were tricked into selecting specific partners