A device which simulates borehole ballooning, a detrimental side effect of deep-water drilling operations, is expected…
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Offspring may inherit legacy of their father's Toxoplasma infection
Australian researchers have revealed for the first time that males infected with the Toxoplasma parasite can…
Rat spinal cords control neural function in biobots
Biological robots, or biobots, draw inspiration from natural systems to mimic the motions of organisms, such…
Correlations in COVID-19 growth point to universal strategies for slowing spread
Many months since the first COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, countries continue to explore solutions that…
Play fighting helps equip animals for later life – new research
As we endure the current COVID-19 crisis with its important measures of social isolation and distancing,…
Want to help rare birds? Dig a pond
The first swallows have made landfall in the UK, fanning out over the greening landscape. The…
How digital tools can keep democracy thriving during lockdown
This is not business as usual for democracy. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, governments at all…
Finding the genes to build a better cancer treatment
Scientists are one step closer to understanding how the cancer-fighting drug Taxol is produced by trees. …
COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for entrepreneurial approaches to climate change
As the U.S. struggles to control the COVID-19 pandemic, some experts have suggested that we can…
A leap in using silicon for battery anodes
The same material you’ll find at the tip of a pencil—graphite—has long been a key component…