science

Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey. Source link

From health tech developers to influencers, our health is being monetised – and we need to be aware of what’s going on, says Deborah Cohen Source link

While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett Source link

Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has a repeating structure in time Source link

The National Trust describes the Northey Island project as “a bold marine engineering feat”. Source link

The measles vaccine has prevented 60 million deaths since 2000. So why are so many children around the world missing out on it? Source link

A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies Source link

The government wants more homes to have heat pumps and is making grants available. Source link

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human Source link

A woman’s fertility can be partly gauged by levels of a hormone that reflects how many eggs she has. Now, scientists have built a strip that changes colour according to levels of this hormone, which is present in period blood, into a menstrual pad Source link