While the Covid-19 pandemic raged across the world in 2020, another disease was quietly infecting more than 220 million people on the continent of Africa: malaria. That year, the disease led to...
For centuries, British flowers have been blooming like clockwork. A few months into spring, sometime around May or June, the nation bursts into color.Since the early 1980s, however, hundreds of plants have...
When the house falls silent in the dead of night, or after the kids have gone to school in the morning, I can hear a high-pitched, occasionally oscillating sound. If I focus...
The friendliness of your dog could have serious implications for its social standing with other canines, new research suggests.In a questionnaire designed to measure the personality traits of companion dogs and compare...
Intuition tells mathematicians that adding 2 to a number should completely change its multiplicative structure—meaning there should be no correlation between whether a number is prime (a multiplicative property) and whether the...
Thanks to a combination of sensing the Earth's magnetic field through vision and an in-built compass that allows them to orient themselves according to magnetic intensity, migratory birds don't have much trouble finding their way.
Those biological...
Le kombucha rafraîchissant Le thé qui fait fureur ces jours-ci parmi certaines données démographiques mondiales pourrait également détenir la clé de membranes vivantes abordables et écologiquement durables pour la filtration de l'eau,...
A star that exploded into brightness nearly 200 years ago can now be explored in glorious, multi-wavelength detail. In a new video, a team of scientists modeled the Homunculus Nebula around the...