杏吧原创

News

Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with New 杏吧原创鈥檚 exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.

Chemistry

Quantum dots help destroy 鈥榝orever chemicals鈥� with light

Shining light through nanocrystals helps break down PFAS without the need for extreme heat or pressure

News

Environment

Glaciers in the Andes are the smallest they鈥檝e been for 130,000 years

News
BG1BW6 A pebble dropping into a shallow stony pool.

Physics

A slight curve helps rocks make the biggest splash

News
Donald Johanson excavating Lucy
Life

Donald Johanson: Unearthing Lucy changed my life and the world

Video

Life

Algae transformed into a ‘biofactory’ for green fuel and plastics

News

Technology

Using an AI chatbot or voice assistant makes it harder to spot errors

News

Health

What is ‘problematic smartphone use’ and should we worry about it?

News

Health

People who had severe covid-19 show cognitive decline years later

News

Health

Vision loss and high cholesterol recognised as dementia risk factors

News

Physics

Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement

Calculations show that nerve fibres in the brain could emit pairs of entangled particles, and this quantum phenomenon might explain how different parts of the brain work together

News

Health

Weeding out Olympic doping cheats won’t actually end inequity in sport

News

Health

We may have found why people experience body dysmorphic disorder

News

Space

Should we put a frozen backup of Earth’s life on the moon?

News

Life

We have discovered an entirely new kind of wood

News