Researchers at The University of Queensland and CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have shown bees can…
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Controlling turbulent heat transport by manipulating coherent structures
This topic is reviewed by Prof. Ke-Qing Xia (Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China)…
Streaming films more diverse than cinematic releases: study
Films released by streaming services are more racially representative and more likely to have female leads…
Key mechanism that controls human heart development discovered
Writing in Science Advances researchers of the University of Cologne describe a key mechanism that controls…
New nanoparticles can perform gene-editing in the lungs
Engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have designed a new type of…
Mice play virtual reality games to reveal how memories are selected for long-term storage
Neuroscientists watched the brains of mice as they played virtual reality games to elucidate how memory…
An improved, visible light-harvesting catalyst to speed up reactions
Photocatalysis is the use of light to accelerate the rate of a reaction in the presence…
Structure of 'oil-eating' enzyme opens door to bioengineered catalysts
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced the first atomic-level structure…
Shining a light on the mechanics of embryo development
In 1922, French physicist Léon Brillouin predicted an interesting phenomenon—when light is shone on a material,…
Stressed plants emit airborne sounds that can be detected from more than a meter away
What does a stressed plant sound like? A bit like bubble-wrap being popped. Researchers in Israel…