Sex pays off for stick insects despite costs
Asexual reproduction might be convenient – with no need to find or fight for mates – but it can have undesirable genetic results. Sex keeps …
Asexual reproduction might be convenient – with no need to find or fight for mates – but it can have undesirable genetic results. Sex keeps …
Colonies of one species of Paenibacillus bacterium crank up the acidity of their environment so much that they eventually burst. Microbes pump out acid until …
An experiment found that some children spontaneously adopt techniques to manage a limited resource. Children use adult-like tactics to tackle ‘tragedy of the commons’ puzzle. …
I’ll never forget my first sight of a bird of paradise. On a hike in the central highlands of New Guinea one morning, I found …
Poland violated European Union law by allowing widespread logging in protected areas of the ancient Białowieża forest, Europe’s highest court ruled today. The declaration settles …
Minerals in miniature gems point to origins in the early Solar System. Mini-diamonds discovered inside a rare meteorite come from a vanished embryonic planet. A …
Carole Godain remembers a lot of the little details from the clinical trial she took part in nine years ago. There was the blue button …
Miniature capsules deliver enzymes that quickly cut blood-alcohol levels. A pair of nanocapsules serve as an alcohol antidote by ferrying detoxifying enzymes to the liver. …
A few years after the Second World War, Muzafer Sherif conducted possibly the most complex field studies ever attempted in social psychology. Sited in summer …
It is estimated that more than 2. 1 million children under 15 years of age are living with HIV infection worldwide (see Statistical Tables at …
If cosmologist Brian Keating had his way, the scientific teams that made two of the most astounding discoveries in physics – the Higgs boson and …
A dense cluster of stars surrounds the supermassive black hole that lies at the Galactic Centre. Stars that live and die in the cluster are …