Week in images: 15 – 19 February 2021

Week in images: 15 – 19 February 2021 Discover our week through the lens …

Bacterial magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Magnetic nanoparticles biosynthesized by bacteria might soon play an important role in biomedicine and biotechnology. Researchers…

New study contradicts pseudoscientific beliefs about the influence of the moon on agriculture

A research team from the Botanical Garden and Department of Experimental and Social Sciences Education of…

Cryptic sex: How female and unisexual animals reproduce without males

Not all species need sperm to fertilize an egg for sexual reproduction. Some species need sperm…

Seeing stable topology using instabilities

We are most familiar with the four conventional phases of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.…

Tourism desperately wants a return to the 'old normal' but that would be a disaster

With each passing day, the grave future of Earth becomes more stark. The disruption of COVID-19…

We could find extraterrestrial civilizations by their air pollution

Upcoming telescopes will give us more power to search for biosignatures on all the exoplanets we’ve…

What studying children's attitudes can tell us about gender‑based pay inequity

Children as young as five recognize the unfairness of gender-based pay inequality and appear willing to…

Quartz crystals in the stomach of fossil bird complicates the mystery of its diet

The fossil of a bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs was found with some sort of…

COVID-19: Future targets for treatments rapidly identified with new computer simulations

Researchers have detailed a mechanism in the distinctive corona of COVID-19 that could help scientists to…