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Technology

Has the US finally figured out how to do high-speed rail?

As work begins on building the US鈥檚 first high-speed rail service 鈥� linking Los Angeles to Las Vegas 鈥� analysts say the project could serve as a blueprint for similar projects across the country

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Physics

Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves in startling image

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Environment

Deliberate fires are responsible for half of the land burned each year

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Apr 10, 2024 Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking method capable of detecting drug substances from fingerprints lifted from crime scenes, which could provide fresh insights into unsolved cases. The technique is sheath-flow probe electrospray ionization. Supplied by Meg Cox M.A.Cox@lboro.ac.uk

Chemistry

Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left at crime scenes

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Environment

Geoengineering could save the ice sheets 鈥� but only if we start soon

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Life

Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find their way home

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Health

How cannabis gets you high and alters your perception

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Space

Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded solar systems

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Environment

Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more carbon than we thought

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Life

Songs that birds ‘sing’ in their dreams translated into sound

By measuring how birds鈥� vocal muscles move while they are asleep and using a physical model for how those muscles produce sound, researchers have pulled songs from the minds of sleeping birds

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Mind

Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listening to music

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Environment

Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture more energy

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Humans

Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,000 years ago

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Technology

Autonomous e-scooters could ride themselves back to charging points

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