Laughing parrots, backflipping robots and saviour viruses: science stories of 2017 - News Summed Up

Laughing parrots, backflipping robots and saviour viruses: science stories of 2017


Liz Sockett, professor of bacterial genetics, University of NottinghamParrots are found to lark aboutFacebook Twitter Pinterest Playful kea in Arthur’s Pass, New Zealand. Photograph: Gulshan Khan/AFP/Getty ImagesNo other science has enjoyed such a perpetual revolution in recent years as human evolution. Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (2016, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)Chinese satellite beams entangled particles of light to EarthFacebook Twitter Pinterest The quantum satellite link established by Chinese physicists. Jim Al-Khalili, professor of physics, professor of public engagement in science, University of Surrey5Extent of large carnivore decline revealedFacebook Twitter Pinterest A lion in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa. Jan Zalasiewicz, professor of palaeobiology, University of LeicesterGoogle’s AlphaGo ditches the human tutorsFacebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Sedol’s 2016 match against AlphaGo.


Source: The Guardian December 24, 2017 09:11 UTC



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