Ph. New World screwworm flies lay their eggs in the living tissue of warm-blooded animals. Ramdan Fatoni/iStock via Getty Images Sarah Tomlinson, Colorado State University New World screwworm, a concerning pest that mainly impacts livestock and wildlife, was detected in South Texas in June 2026. It has since expanded northward in Texas, and
Geoffrey Howarth, University of Cape Town Some of the most extraordinary gems ever found belong to a rare class of diamonds known as CLIPPIRs (Cullinan-like, Large, Inclusion-Poor, Pure, Irregular, Resorbed). They make up less than 1% of all diamonds on Earth, and include three of the largest diamonds ever recovered, the Cullinan, at
Nature has spent billions of years perfecting the art of building with living cells. A team of researchers is now learning from that process – and finding ways to speed it up. For Massimo Vassalli, professor of bioengineering at the University of Glasgow, the goal is to understand not only how living tissues
Ph. Senegalese peacekeepers on patrol in Bamako, Mali. Flickr, CC BY-NC Tilman Brück, Humboldt University of Berlin; Karen Devries, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Marcella Vigneri, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Olusegun Fadare, University of Greenwich, and Vegard Iversen, University of Greenwich Political violence refers to the use of
Ph. Robert Harding Video/Shutterstock Jules B. Kajtar, National Oceanography Centre and Zoe Jacobs, University of Southampton A dip in the sea can provide welcome relief after long stretches of hot weather – especially when the water is an inviting 20°C or more, as it has been recently across southern parts of the UK.
For decades, economic growth has been treated as the clearest measure of progress. Yet rising GDP does not always translate into happier, healthier lives, and the environmental and social costs of growth are becoming harder to ignore. Martijn Burger, a professor of happiness economics at Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, believes it is
Farmland biodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems and productive agricultural landscapes. Yet across Europe, farmland birds – key indicators of environmental health – have suffered sharp declines as farming has intensified. As they pass over the fields of Brandenburg in eastern Germany, two satellites are doing work that an army of
Imagine struggling to follow conversations in a noisy restaurant or keep up in a busy office, yet being told by a doctor that your hearing is fine. That is the frustrating reality for people living with cochlear synaptopathy, or hidden hearing loss. Around 34 million adults in the EU live with a disabling hearing
Rory Jones, University of Reading For decades, people in the UK tended to view air conditioning as something that belonged elsewhere. It was associated with office buildings, hotels and hotter countries rather than their own homes. But as summers become warmer and heatwaves more frequent, that picture is beginning to change. Colleagues and
By Jaro Nemčok – http://nemcok.sk/?pic=43790, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=129888808 Rod Crompton, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa is moving away from coal-fired electricity, which currently supplies 74% of the country’s power, to wind and solar energy. But as the country’s experience shows, the transition is complex and is being slowed down. This is