Children persist less when parents take over

Watching a child show off newly mastered shoe-tying skills is often an exercise in parental patience.…

Study suggests that the financial impact of COVID-19 is comparable to the Wall Street Crash of 1929

A study co-authored by an academic from Queen Mary University of London has shed new light…

Hear the call of the wild: Tracking deer movements by sound

In the marchland of Japan’s Oze National Park, keeping track of the deer population has been…

Rare 72-year-old Scotch whisky to be auctioned in Hong Kong

A 72-year-old bottle of Glen Grant single malt whisky from Scotland is expected to fetch more…

Sustainable optical fibers developed from methylcellulose

Researchers from Tampere University and Aalto University have developed optical fibers from methylcellulose, a commonly used…

CERN's latest LS2 Report: Beams circulate in the PS Booster

If you follow CERN on social media, you probably saw back in December that the first…

Squeeze it like toothpaste: The flexible brain of marsupial mammals

Being stretchy and squeezable may be the key to finding space for the brain in mammals,…

Using zirconium as an additive in super-strong composite materials

Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are incredibly strong materials used in jet engines, gas turbines, and cutting…

3-D genome brain study uncovers human-specific regulatory changes during development

A team led by Prof. Su Bing from the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of the…

Dalian Coherent Light Source reveals origin of interstellar disulfur

Studying the creation and evolution of sulfur-containing compounds in outer space is essential for understanding interstellar…