Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic

Ancient humans deliberately collected perforated shells in order to string them together as beads, according to…

'Bystander Effect' not exclusive to humans

A rat is less likely to help a trapped companion if it is with other rats…

How good gut bacteria help reduce the risk for heart disease

Scientists have discovered that one of the good bacteria found in the human gut has a…

COVID-19 brain complications found across the globe

Cases of brain complications linked to COVID-19 are occurring across the globe, a new review has…

Supergenes play a larger role in evolution than previously thought

Large blocks of ‘plug and play’ genes play a super-sized role in adaption-and may help fill…

Physicists use oscillations of atoms to control a phase transition

The goal of ”Femtochemistry” is to film and control chemical reactions with short flashes of light.…

Learning more about particle collisions with machine learning

A team of scientists has devised a machine learning algorithm that calculates, with low computational time,…

The best (and worst) materials for masks

It’s intuitive and scientifically shown that wearing a face covering can help reduce the spread of…

How colliding neutron stars could shed light on universal mysteries

Researchers have discovered an unusual pulsar – one of deep space’s magnetized spinning neutron-star ‘lighthouses’ that…

New molecular tool precisely edits mitochondrial DNA

The precision editing technologies that have revolutionized DNA editing in the cell nucleus have been unable…