NASA’s flying observatory, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, recently completed a detailed study of…
Month: May 2017
Long lost monitor lizard ‘re-discovered’ on Papua New Guinean island
Scientists have recently found and re-described a monitor lizard species from the island of New Ireland…
Bending sheet glass using lasers and gravity
A new technique makes it possible to bend sheet glass into complex or unconventional shapes with…
1000 km range for e-cars thanks to a new battery concept
You cannot get far today with electric cars. One reason is that the batteries require a…
Antioxidants, plastics could be made from byproducts of wheat milling
It's usually used as livestock feed, but wheat bran's value in human nutrition and medicine may…
Fashion mannequins communicate ‘dangerously thin’ body ideals
The body size of mannequins used to advertise female fashion in the UK are too thin…
Feeding strategies in competing hummingbird species observed in a small area in Brazil
Being the vertebrates with the highest metabolic rate thanks to their rapid wing flaps, the hummingbirds…
The courting cephalopods of the East China Sea
The oval squid are unusual in that they actively alter their skin's patterning. With their body…
Domino effect in pharmaceutical synthesis
Chemists have made research into pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis more efficient, more sustainable and more environmentally friendly.…
DNA fingerprinting reveals how malaria hides from our immune system
DNA fingerprinting has revealed how the malaria parasite shuffles genes to create different strains and hide…