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The surprising benefits of fingers that wrinkle in water
Spend more than a few minutes soaking in a bath or paddling around a swimming pool and your fingers will undergo a dramatic transformation. Where there were once delicate whorls of lightly ridged epidermis, engorged folds of ugly pruned skin will now be found.
By Turnell Feliu4 years ago in Earth
Can we fix our ocean noise problem?
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, a great lull fell over North America, above and below the water.
By Lonetoft4 years ago in Earth
How do mosquitoes mate?Larvae of mosquitoes
In the eyes of people, sometimes mosquitoes are just pests, while other times, mosquitoes do drive the spread of disease (such as malaria and Zika virus). But no matter what, male and female mosquitoes can not live without survival and reproduction, but how are they mated?
By conant abram4 years ago in Earth
The country trailblazing the fight against disasters
he cyclone that killed Chaina Mistry's two-month-old brother in late 1988 arrived unexpectedly and in the middle of the night.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in Earth
The promise and danger of Scotland's bog
As I watch the predator, its flaming orange-red tendril outstretched, it makes a catch. Its prey writhes, working itself deeper into a smothering grip. The flagrant sunset-coloured carnivore has made little effort to conceal itself, but its prey was unable to resist the allure of its sticky trap.
By Turnell Feliu4 years ago in Earth
The crab invading the Mediterranean Sea
n October 2014, Lotfi Rabaoui was travelling the shallow sandy waters near Ghannouch, a small coastal town in the Gabes Gulf in Tunisia, with a group of local fishermen. Traversing the beds of seagrass and algae, the fishermen made an unusual catch.
By Lonetoft4 years ago in Earth
How limitless green energy would change the world
What would we do with an abundant, cheap, inexhaustible supply of renewables? Perhaps the desalination of seawater, suddenly cost-efficient, would relieve Earth's water shortages. Rubbish might be recycled on a massive scale, allowing for the extraction of precious trace elements such as rare earth metals, while carbon dioxide (CO2) could be vacuumed out of the atmosphere to slow climate change. People could live comfortably in Earth's polar regions or travel far and wide in battery-powered vehicles. Goods and services that require electricity might become cheaper, even free. Our emissions footprint could soon be undetectable.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in Earth
The Tar Barrel Festival, Allendale
As a resident of Northumberland, I occasionally see local TV news reports of a New Year’s Eve tradition that takes place annually in Allendale, a village in the southwest of the county. Known as the Tar Barrel Festival (spelled tar bar’l locally), the highlight is a procession of men in assorted costumes, known as guisers, each carrying a cut-down wooden barrel-end on his head that contains a blazing concoction of tar and wood shavings.
By Joe Young4 years ago in Earth
Incredible Unsolved Mysteries
Researchers gazing into Earth's interior have discovered two continent-sized structures that turn our view of the mantle on its head. What does their existence mean for our return to the Earth's surface?
By Mejra4 years ago in Earth
How to store data for 1,000 years
"You know you're a nerd when you store DNA in your fridge." At her home in Paris, Dina Zielinski, a senior scientist in human genomics at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, holds up a tiny vial to her laptop camera for me to see on our video call. It's hard to make out, but she tells me that I should be able to see a mostly clear, light film on the bottom of the vial – this is the DNA.
By Gu Wei Di Qi4 years ago in Earth
Is there a good alternative to peated compost?
In a greenhouse in Nottinghamshire, Barbara Wright is growing peat. Well, not peat exactly. Wright's company, BeadaMoss, is growing sphagnum moss – the main component of natural peat extracted from northern peatlands for use in gardens across the US and Europe.
By Mcgrotha Brinker4 years ago in Earth
The school that created a city for the blind
At the age of eight, Leon Portz was gradually losing his eyesight due to a congenital condition when he was given his first computer. By the age of nine, he had figured out how to speed up the machine-generated voice that read out websites and other electronic texts, allowing him to grasp the information faster. He now listens to texts at five times the standard speed, which is unintelligible to an untrained ear.
By Turnell Feliu4 years ago in Earth