Long-tailed tits avoid incest by recognising the calls of relatives

Long-tailed tits actively avoid harmful inbreeding by discriminating between the calls of close family members and…

Triggering bacteria in the service of medicine

Bacteria, as it turns out, are a lot like us. They get complacent in relaxed, non-threatening…

Will we see a cashless society emerge from the pandemic?

When the World Health Organization earlier this year recommended that people move to cashless transactions to…

Mathematicians behind JPEG files honored by Spanish award

An international team of mathematicians whose theories have improved the compression of large digital files of…

US judge bars California cancer warning on Roundup

A US judge permanently barred California from placing a cancer warning on Bayer’s Roundup, handing a…

Study shows African immigrants in U.S. do well, despite differences among them

President Donald Trump may have nearly ended the flow of refugees and other African immigrants to…

Study shows nearly no universities ready to deal with social media crisis

Not so long ago, social media was a novel way for professionals in higher education to…

Image: Space Station stitch

This panorama of the International Space Station is a wider view of what ESA astronaut Luca…

Brexit's and research networks: Lower efficiency, reorganization of research communities

The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, a move known as Brexit, took effect Jan.…

Launch of mobile app that controls the perfect amount of fertilizers and water

Fertigation allows for simultaneously applying the necessary water and fertilizers via irrigation systems. It offers significant…