Borrowing tricks from birds may result in smoother flights
While chatting to a customer in the family bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur Wright was idly twisting a piece of cardboard…
Fatherless sons have more testosterone
Most males in the animal kingdom do little parenting. Their strategy is simple: inseminate as many females as possible and hope…
Corals are threatened by global warming
It is not news that coral reefs are in hot water. Corals, which are sessile animals related to sea anemones, host within their…
How to improve the search for aliens
May 25th 2022 (Updated May 26th 2022)For decades, astronomers searching for life beyond humanity’s home planet have had a simple…
The spread of monkeypox
Since britain reported a case of monkeypox on May 7th, more than 300 further instances have been noted across the world. The disease,…
Ukraine’s agricultural research is threatened by the war
It was a moment of horror. In a video posted on the internet on May 14th Sergey Avramenko, a researcher at the National Gene Bank…
The wonder material graphene may have found its killer app
May 18th 2022 | Cambridge, EnglandClose to where the college rowing teams of Britain’s second-oldest university practise their…
Russian and Western scientists no longer collaborate in the Arctic
May 14th 2022 | The valley of the Pasvik, NorwayKNEE-DEEP in the rushing waters of a creek in the valley of the Pasvik river,…
A bacterium that tricks the immune system into nurturing it
THE IMMUNE system has many weapons with which to counter hostile incomers. But what works against one may not be effective against…