Income inequality fuels status anxiety and sexualisation, research shows

Women’s appearance enhancement is driven partly by status anxiety and income inequality, according to new research. …

Researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate

Encased in a neon orange plastic shell, a collection of electronic sensors bobbed along the surface…

Coated seeds may enable agriculture on marginal lands

Providing seeds with a protective coating that also supplies essential nutrients to the germinating plant could…

A little prairie can rescue honey bees from famine on the farm, study finds

Scientists placed honey bee hives next to soybean fields in Iowa and tracked how the bees…

Unravelling the venomous bite of an endangered mammal

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and ZSL (Zoological Society of London) have worked…

How diversity of respiratory quinones affects microbial physiology

A new study provides a fundamental understanding of the diversification of small molecules called respiratory quinones…

Self-assembling system uses magnets to mimic specific binding in DNA

Sometimes it’s best to let the magnets do all the work. Click here for…

pinMOS: Novel memory device can be written on and read out optically or electrically

Scientists at the Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and the Center…

Downstream signaling: Cilia release ectosomes to deliver important messages in the kidney

Although the cilium has been known to scientists for more than 100 years, it is only…

NASA's Webb to unveil the secrets of nearby dwarf galaxies

In two separate studies using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers will…