‘Green’-feed: Industrial microbes could feed cattle, pigs, chicken

Today, producing feed for pigs, cattle and chicken causes immense impacts for the climate and the…

Birds have time-honored traditions, too

By faithfully copying the most popular songs, swamp sparrows create time-honored song traditions that can be…

Parent-child therapy helps young children with depression

New research demonstrates that an interactive therapy involving parents and their depressed preschoolers can reduce rates…

A dual-therapy approach to boost motor recovery after a stroke

Scientists have shown that combining a brain-computer interface (BCI) with functional electrical stimulation (FES) can help…

Controlling robots with brainwaves and hand gestures

System enables people to correct robot mistakes on multi-choice problems.

Surgery in space

With renewed public interest in manned space exploration comes the potential need to diagnose and treat…

Do bats adapt to gates at abandoned mines?

Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks…

Chemical ‘caryatids’ improve the stability of metal-organic frameworks

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials that can change the way we capture carbon, filter water,…

Whether wheat weathers heat waves

Unlike humans, crops in a field can't move to air conditioning to endure a heat wave.…

Around the world, people have surprisingly modest notions of the ‘ideal’ life

It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were…