BBC Futureflipped into News5 hours agoMetals from space: The rocky future of asteroid miningverified_publisherBBC Future - Josh SimsAs an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies floating above us. Thirty years ago the seminal BBC science programme Tomorrow's World made a few predictions about how the world might be …
BBC Futureflipped into News1 day ago'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heardverified_publisherBBC Future - Chris BaraniukComputers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US. Pretty much every day, another customer clutching an old typewriter will walk into Mike Marr's shop in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Marr carefully looks the machine over. …
BBC Futureflipped into News2 days agoElephants hate bees – here's why that's good news for Kenyan farmersverified_publisherBBC Future - Gennaro TommaFarmers are turning bees into unexpected helpers to keep elephants off their crops. Around the world, spreading farmland is increasingly overlapping with elephant habitats, often resulting in dangerous interactions as elephants roam over people's crops. But in Kenya, after decades of investigation, …
BBC Futureflipped into News3 days agoSpaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universeverified_publisherBBC Future - Joseph HowlettWhen you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties. You might think physicists only ask the big questions. We mostly hear about the physics of the cosmic and the …
BBC Futureflipped into News4 days agoResurrection plants: The drought-resistant 'zombie plants' that come back from the deadverified_publisherBBC Future - Alex RileyTo protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of plants that can survive months of drought then regreen within hours. It was as a child growing up in South Africa in the 1970s that Jill Farrant first noticed several plants around her apparently coming …
BBC Futureflipped into News5 days agoThe European towns that give away free chickensverified_publisherBBC Future - Lucy SherriffTowns in France and Belgium have been giving out free chickens for years to combat food waste – could the idea catch on elsewhere? Around Easter in 2015, the French town of Colmar started handing out free chickens to its residents. The aim of this experimental new scheme, launched by the waste …
