Spotify’s music service seeks to drum up $1 billion in IPO

Music-streaming pioneer Spotify is hoping to attract a new crowd of fans on Wall Street to…

Researchers create tool to manage urban cat population crisis

Accurate numbers are the cat's pyjamas when it comes to solving the current cat population crisis.…

Pesticides put bees at risk, European watchdog confirms

Most uses of insecticides known as neonicotinoids represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, say…

The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials

A new understanding of why synthetic 2-D materials often perform orders of magnitude worse than predicted…

Disappearing act: Biologists document the secondary extinction of a disease-carrying mosquito

The Asian tiger mosquito—carrier of such diseases as dengue, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya and…

New mathematical framework establishes the risk of dramatic collapses of real networks

A theoretical framework explaining the risk of rare events causing major disruptions in complex networks, such…

Nut consumption may aid colon cancer survival

People with stage III colon cancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of…

Can our eyes help predict who will develop memory loss?

People whose eyes show signs of small changes in blood vessels at age 60 may be…

The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials

Scientists have a new understanding of why synthetic 2-D materials often perform orders of magnitude worse…

Study offers blueprint for community-based public history research

A new paper on fieldwork in rural Belize serves as a case study for how an…