A group of researchers from the Higher Technical School of Engineering at the University of Seville…
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Is an ‘insect apocalypse’ happening? How would we know?
Insects scuttle, chew and fly through the world around us. Humans rely on them to pollinate…
Wax helps plants to survive in the desert
In 1956, Würzburg botanist Otto Ludwig Lange observed an unusual phenomenon in the Mauritanian desert in…
Shutting down social media does not reduce violence, but rather fuels it
In the wake of a series of coordinated attacks that claimed more than 250 lives on…
Can we turn sewage ‘sludge’ into something valuable?
Over the past few years I have become an academic expert in "sewage sludge" – the…
Water creates traps in organic electronics
Poor-quality organic semiconductors can become high-quality semiconductors when manufactured in the correct way. Researchers at Linköping…
Cute or creepy: Why humans love some species, loathe others
The Chinese giant salamander, the largest amphibian in the world, is not cute.
New research helps visualise sentiment and stance in social media
How can you find and make sense of opinions and emotions in the vast amount of…
More than eight in 10 men in prison suffered childhood adversity – new report
Male prisoners are much more likely than men in the wider population to have suffered childhood…
Swan EGGs in the sky: Astronomers conduct radio observations of free-floating evaporating gas globules in Cygnus OB2
Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), astronomers have carried out radio observations of the so-called…