Category Science & Discovery

Science is necessary, but clearly not sufficient, for conveying the climate crisis. The past two years have been the hottest on record. Denial of climate change is still widespread and false claims about products’ environmental benefits, or ‘greenwashing’, are on…

Can artificial intelligence help us understand what animals feel? A pioneering study suggests the answer is yes. Researchers from the Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen have successfully trained a machine-learning model to distinguish between positive and negative…

Are you already sick of all your subscription costs this year, like Netflix and Amazon Prime? The good news is there’s one that’s a lot easier to leave: Microsoft 365.  A Microsoft Office lifetime license could be just what the…

This photo taken on January 31, 2025 shows snow covering the top of a “torii”, or gate at a shrine in the ski resort town of Hakuba, Nagano prefecture. Residents of northern Japan were sheltering from deep snow up to…

Schwabe, L. & Wolf, O. T. Stress prompts habit behavior in humans. J. Neurosci. 29, 7191–7198 (2009). Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  MATH  Google Scholar  Pool, E. R. et al. Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression…

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a fundamental mechanism that affects the size of the pupil, namely our breathing. The study, published in The Journal of Physiology, shows that the pupil is smallest during inhalation and largest during…

By dragging a bunch of dead fish around, scientists may have uncovered a hidden power of one of biology’s most important substances—mucus. And what they found might even help us understand the very dawn of vertebrate life on land. First,…

The polarized diSPIM microscope, which can image full 3D orientation and position of molecules in cells. The instrument was constructed in the Hari Shroff lab at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) after the idea was conceived…

Konig, T. et al. MIROs and DRP1 drive mitochondrial-derived vesicle biogenesis and promote quality control. Nat. Cell Biol. 23, 1271–1286 (2021). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  MATH  Google Scholar  Yang, Q. et al. LONP-1 and ATFS-1 sustain deleterious heteroplasmy by promoting…

Australian scientists have gained new insights into the fundamental behaviour of flexible materials, allowing for the design of new building materials and technology. A team involving researchers at The University of Queensland and QUT has identified the origin of the…