Tougher start could help captive-bred game birds

Tougher early lives could help captive-bred game birds develop survival skills for adulthood in the wild,…

Compulsory cat microchipping is great in theory, but the system is flawed

When dog microchipping became a legal requirement in England and Wales in April 2016, calls to…

New encapsulation technique protects electronic properties of sensitive materials

As electronics grow smaller, researchers are searching for tiny components that function reliably in increasingly narrow…

Scientists create listeriosis-immune mice by turning off gene in myeloid cells

An international research team that includes specialists from ITMO University has conducted a series of experiments…

Astrophysicists construct approximations for the metric of spherically symmetric black holes

RUDN astrophysicists have proposed a new method for approximate calculation of the parameters of spherically symmetric…

Fourier's 200-year-old heat equation explains hydrodynamic heat propagation

Michele Simoncelli, a Ph.D. student at EPFL, Andrea Cepellotti, a former EPFL student now at Harvard,…

Bulgarians' patience runs dry over water crisis

Forced to “live without water, in the 21st century, in a European Union country”: Bulgarian Yana…

Improved mathematical model helps explain different lotus leaf types

A trio of researchers at Fudan University has improved a mathematical model to allow it to…

Spider glue turns moths' defenses against them

If you’ve ever tried to stick tape to a dusty surface, you know the dilemma most…

Measuring a particle's spin in a rapidly rotating object

A team of researchers at the University of Melbourne has succeeded in measuring a single quantum…