The fascinating history of boredom

“I’m bored” is a statement many parents dread hearing during the summer holidays. Click…

Ring-shaped multi-carbon compound cyclocarbon synthesized

A team of researchers from Oxford University and IBM Research has for the first time successfully…

It'll be hard, but we can feed the world with plant protein

A U.N. report released last week found a quarter of the world’s carbon emissions come from…

Discovery of a bottleneck relief in photosynthesis may have a major impact on food crops

Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight…

Could biological clocks in plants set the time for crop spraying?

Plants can tell the time, and this affects their responses to certain herbicides used in agriculture…

New insight into bacterial infections found in the noses of healthy cattle

New research used the ‘One Health’ approach to study three bacterial species in the noses of…

A glimpse into the future: Accelerated computing for accelerated particles

Every proton collision at the Large Hadron Collider is different, but only a few are special.…

Indigenous knowledge offers new approach to help forests adapt to new conditions

When Jaime Yazzie began planning her research for her forestry thesis, her adviser asked her what…

Risk assessment at nanoscale level: A closer look at the mimotope variation analysis

Since January 2018 the EU project PANBioRA is developing a modular system for a comprehensive risk…

Damage found in the bit area of most Finnish trotting horses

In a Finnish study, damage was found in the part of the mouth affected by the…