Nasa has revealed that the length of a day on Mars is ‘shrinking’.
Data from the space agency’s InSight Mars lander, suggest the red planet’s rotation is accelerating every year by about 4 milliarcseconds – leading to a shortening of the day there, by a fraction of a millisecond per year. The findings are published in the journal Nature.
Research has found the brain’s ‘appetite control centre’ is different in people who are overweight or living with obesity. Dr Stephanie Brown, researcher from the University of Cambridge and first author of the study, explains to Tech & Science Daily what the significance of the findings could mean.
A global study suggests that a rise in antibiotic resistance is linked to air pollution - and it could be a significant threat to human health worldwide.
The analysis, published in the journal Lancet Planetary Health, using data from more than 100 countries across nearly two decades, indicates that the link has strengthened over time, and it is an issue across every country and continent.
And the rest
Portugal battles wildfires amid third heatwave of the year, Snapchat reportedly under scrutiny from UK watchdog over underage users, and urban foxes ‘bolder but not cleverer’ than their rural cousins.
Research reveals a key cause of restricted blood flow to the brain in vascular dementia, and a ‘meteor shower’ over Australia was actually a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere.
Plus, why a passenger plane from Italy bound for London Gatwick took a detour to North Africa.
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