According to new tracking data, common swifts travel 570 kilometers (more than 350 miles) on an average day–but they are capable of going much farther and faster.
The Astonishing Speed of the Swift
3D Printable Gels
“Alginates are used in wound dressings, so this material potentially could be used as a strengthened 3D-printed bandage or as a patch for wound healing or drug delivery.” Lilian Hsiao
Wildfires and the formation of sugar-loaf hills
“How inselbergs and their surrounding plains formed has long been a hot topic in tropical geomorphology.”
The Impact of Tree ‘Farts’ In Ghost Forests
“Even the smallest fart counts.”
Astronomy Beginners Guide: How to Find the Constellations (May)
“Our map which accompanies the guide to the planets each month is drawn for 9 pm (21:00 hours) in mid-month, in Greenwich Mean Time, nowadays called Universal Time, so in summer the map is accurate for 20:00 hrs BST in the middle of the month, half an hour earlier at the beginning of the month and half an hour later at the end”
Lifting the Veil of Venus
Venus is an enigma. It’s the planet next door and yet reveals little about itself.
Groundbreaking DNA Research Combatting Cancers
In a groundbreaking first, research led by Queen’s University Belfast has found thousands of ‘Achilles Heels’ or ‘cancer vulnerabilities’ in an analysis of more than 700 different cancer cell types.
Climate change has shifted Earth’s poles
“GRACE data have now confirmed that more recent melting of polar glaciers due to global warming underlie an unusual reversal and acceleration of polar wandering since the 1990s”
Revealing the Forest Hidden Past of Angkor
The Greater Angkor region in Cambodia has slowly been revealing its forest hidden past to archaeologists.
Astronomy Beginner’s Guide: Using a Small Telescope
“Most of the great discoveries of astronomy, by Galileo and his successors, were made using telescopes which were very small by modern standards”
