science

Fungi have become Hollywood’s go-to bad guys. But as yet another story focuses on Cordyceps, Nick Crumpton says we are missing a chance to broaden our fictional horizons Source link

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data Source link

Plaid Cymru says renewable energy projects would have to hand over stakes of up to 25% to local communities. Source link

One litter picker says he has seen a huge increase in the amount of plastic washing up on Sanday this year. Source link

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better tackle the problem the next day Source link

It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal. Source link

The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists have shown it reduces depression symptoms more than a placebo when given alongside therapeutic support Source link

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics Source link

The toxin, epibatidine, can be found in frogs in the wild in South America or manufactured in a lab. Source link

The US president wants American energy firms to start extracting the crude but they are reluctant. Source link