The dawn of dairy farming in Europe occurred thousands of years before most people evolved the ability to drink milk…
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Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more 18 May 2022 Josie Ford…
Vegetables are good for us, but are there any in particular that are good for diabetics? Diabetes is a complex…
Life as a single seaweed along a rocky coastline can be tough. Though there are plenty of potential partners out…
Highly energetic and difficult to detect, neutrinos travel billions of light years before reaching our planet. Although it is known…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new report has identified the 10 financial actors with the most influence on the fossil…
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The formation of the second layer in a heterolayer coordination nanosheet. Cobalt ions pass through the preexisting first layer (composed…
Women tend to live longer than men but typically have higher rates of illness. Now, new research from University of…
Here’s hoping that a meteor shower predicted by astronomers for almost a century will be seen this month, says Abigail…
Cancer Revolution, a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, explores the advances behind cancer care, from this mask…
Americans drink an estimated 517 million cups of coffee every day, according to the National Coffee Association (opens in new…
Nathan Keay © MCA Chicago. Image courtesy of Carolina Caycedo Visit Caroline Caycedo fills the Baltic Centre in Gateshead, UK,…
A groundbreaking study, led by Professors Yossi Buganim at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) Faculty of Medicine’s Institute for…
Livestock guardian dogs traditionally used to protect herd animals from predators are now also being hailed as a way to…
Livestock diseases will be better managed by incorporating the behaviours of individual farmers into national infection control policies, according to…
Yellow-throated Toucan. Credit: Becky Matsubara, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology A new study helps reveal why tropical mountain birds…
The recent global trend for urban apiary amounts to “bee-washing” that detracts from efforts to reverse the decline in wild…
The loss of the male sex chromosome as many men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can lead…
A strange, ancient-looking shark with blue eyes was unexpectedly discovered in the tropical waters of the Caribbean when it was…
Pilates vs yoga: Which should you practice and why? Pilates is usually practiced to build strength or rehabilitate after an…
When trying to avoid an unwanted thought, people often reactively reject and replace the thought after it occurs. But proactively…
Most people know of some of the tools that help us fight pandemics: safe and effective vaccines, antiviral and antibody…
Zone 2 training has become a trendy term among fitness professionals in recent years, but what does it mean and…
The pigs had already been dead for an hour, and yet, the cells of their hearts, brains and livers were…
An asteroid wider than two football fields will zoom past Earth in the wee hours of Thursday (Aug. 4). The…
An ancient crocodile’s last meal might never have come to light were it not for researchers deciding to scan the…
Examples of how interactions between temperature and sexual selection drive the co-adaptation of thermal physiology, thermoregulation and sexually selected traits…
Researchers took samples from nearby wetlands to determine the environmental history of the north plaza in Cahokia. Credit: Caitlin Rankin…
The researchers demonstrated their approach for generating needle-shaped beams by using a needle-shaped beam 300 microns long and 3 microns…