Metallic blue fruits use fat to produce colour and signal a treat for birds
6 August 2020
Researchers have found that a common plant owes the dazzling blue colour of its fruit to fat in its cellular structure, the first time this type of colour production has been observed in nature.
Whiteness of AI erases people of colour from our ‘imagined futures’, researchers argue
6 August 2020
The overwhelming ‘Whiteness’ of artificial intelligence – from stock images and cinematic robots to the dialects of virtual assistants – removes people of colour from the way humanity thinks about its technology-enhanced future.
Study suggests embryos could be susceptible to coronavirus as early as second week of pregnancy
5 August 2020
Genes that are thought to play a role in how the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects our cells have been found to be active in embryos as early as during the second week of pregnancy, say scientists at the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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