Under a Metal Sky review: A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth’s resources
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Science news this week: Strange signals from space and Earth’s leaking gold
From the world’s oldest known human fingerprint to genetic discoveries made using 2.2 million-year-old tooth enamel, this week’s science news…
Italian festival of the snake-catchers revealed in colourful photos
A statue of the saint in Cucullo, Italy, is draped with harmless local snakes Piero Castellano Every year on 1…
Ancient cave burial said to hold Jesus’ midwife may actually belong to Salome, Herod the Great’s sister
A cave in Israel once thought to be linked to Jesus may in fact be the burial place of another…
The Ministry of Time’s Kaliane Bradley on how time travel was a metaphor for controlling her narrative
“I would have to establish some rules for how time travel worked” … Kaliane Bradley DreamcatcherDiana/Shutterstock The embarrassing truth about…
Physicists force atoms into state of quantum ‘hyper-entanglement’ using tweezers made of laser light
Using optical tweezers composed of laser light, researchers have developed a novel way to manipulate individual atoms and create a…
Read a short extract from Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time for June’s Book Club
Kaliane Bradley’s protagonist is given some unexpected news in The Ministry of Time andrey_l/Shutterstock The interviewer said my name, which…
James Webb telescope spots weird changes on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
You’d think that icy worlds are frozen in time and space because they’re — well — icy. However, planetary scientists…
PTSD symptoms took nearly 10 years to improve in most 9/11 responders
Firefighter Gerard McGibbon prays after the World Trade Center buildings collapsed on 11 September 2001 Mario Tama/Getty Images For most…
Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond
Sahara Dust Clouds Are Heading to Florida and Beyond Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern…