Science with Sam: Why do cats go crazy for catnip?
Catnip turns fearsome felines into drooling balls of fluff. But how? This week, Science with Sam explains why cats love catnip …
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Can we finally wipe out malaria with a vaccine 37 years in the making?
Efforts to make malaria history have had huge success in recent years. Now, there’s hope that the long-awaited RTS,S vaccine can go the last mile …
The COP26 climate summit
COP26 is a climate summit hosted by the UK and Italian governments, taking place between 1 and 12 November 2021. …
Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought
Stories of clever animals abound, from pigs playing video games to monkeys trading mobile phones – now tests reveal that they don’t merely act on instinct but can think flexibly, like us …
What does ‘net zero emissions’ mean?
An ambitious target to reduce emissions, but can it slow global warming? …
Volcanoes
A volcano is essentially a gap in Earth’s crust where the surface is connected to chambers of liquid rock below. …
Steel and concrete are climate change’s hard problem. Can we solve it?
Heavy industry produces more carbon dioxide than the entire US. Perfect the new technologies that could clean it up and we can score a crucial climate victory …
Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, in which people become forgetful and confused, usually starting in older age. People with the disease have a build-up of two kinds of protein clumps in the brain: amyloid and tau. …
Alcohol Can Be Gas
Alcohol Can Be Gas By David Blume Almost every country can become energy independent. Anywhere that has sunlight and land can produce alcohol from plants. Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world imports no oil, since half its cars run on alcohol fuel made from sugarcane, grown on 1% of its land. We can …