To buzz or to scrabble? To foraging bees, that’s the question

Biologists have discovered that for a hard-working bumblebee, foraging for pollen versus nectar is very different…

New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass

Using a state-of-the-art device for measuring mass, researchers have made their most precise determination yet of…

British smokers down by 1. 9 million since smoking ban

Ten years after cigarettes were banished from all UK pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants, new figures…

The secret connection between anxiety, sleep

You may have experienced sleepless nights when you were anxious, stressed or too excited. Such emotions…

Tiny ‘motors’ are driven by light

Researchers have simulated the first system in which particles can be manipulated by a beam of…

Dragonflies reveal how biodiversity changes in time and space

In one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists monitored East Texas dragonfly communities for…

Black carbon varies, but stubbornly persists, in snow and ice around the world

A new study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the…

Method elucidates inner workings of neural networks

A new technique helps elucidate the inner workings of neural networks trained on visual data.

Power to the people

The first rule of advocating for climate change-related legislation is: You do not talk about 'climate…

High pregnancy failure, nutritional stress in southern resident killer whales, study shows

A multi-year survey of the nutritional, physiological and reproductive health of endangered southern resident killer whales…