Building on Mars without transporting tons of concrete from Earth or consuming huge amounts of energy is one of the crucial challenges for future human colonies. A team of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology developed the Martian Living Building Material (MLBM), an advanced bio-building material …
The story of Alexander Zverev, how the tennis player lives with type 1 diabetes
Sascha Zverev. Credit: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY–SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Sascha Zverev he is the man of the moment in the world of tennis. The 29-year-old German, whose career was crushed between two generations of phenomena (the Big Three – Federer, Nadal and Djokovic – …
The roar of deer is among the loudest sounds in the woods: what is the purpose of the audible call up to one km away?
It is among the loudest sounds in European forests, one capable of tearing apart the silence in early autumn: the roar of the male red deer (Cervus elaphus) it is, for those who live near the woods, an unmistakable signal of the arrival of the new season. In addition to …
