The Cost Of Cohesion: Social Foragers Sacrifice Diet Quality To Stay Together
Group-living has evolved many times across a very broad range of animal taxa – from swarms of bees to herds of elephants, and even human…
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Poop Transfer – Past, Present, And (No) Future
The topic is delicate (although this already is a misnomer), as most people shiver if they are not disgusted hearing for the first time what…
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Whole Blood Assay – An Innovative Approach Targeting Research On Inflammasomes
The general idea that our immune system consists of an innate and adaptive part is well-known nowadays. Even though basic mechanisms and pathways of our…
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Food-Caching And Spatial Cognition: Harsher Winters Favor More Caching And Better Cognitive Abilities
One of the large questions in the study of the evolution of animal cognition is why there is large variation both among and within species…
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Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology: An Alternative To Costly Chemical Procedures
Industrial biotechnology aims to use bioprocessing of sustainable agriculture products, such as starch, fatty acids and/or cellulose, to produce bulk chemicals including polymeric materials and…
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Developments In Piezoelectric Nanogenerators
Acceleration sensors play a crucial and essential role in many fields, such as large mechanical structure testing, national defense, transportation, auto industry, biomedical devices, and…
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Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome
Depression is a highly prevalent, severely debilitating mental disorder that affects nearly 5% of the global population, and has a high risk of relapse. Commonly…
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Using Hansen Solubility Parameters To Reduce Permeation In Clay
Ancient humans have long used pottery as their main containers for storing food and as a cooking device even before the Neolithic period. These potteries…
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Policies And Market Uncertainty: Exploring The Impact On Renewables Adoption
There is a wide international consensus on the need to limit global warming. This is evident from the 195 countries who have adopted a binding…
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Anaerobic Digestion: A Promising Solution To Waste
In an energy constrained world, anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) i.e. food residues and green waste, offers a high…
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Women’s Role In Water Resource Management Can Help Move Toward SDG6
If one closely looks at the global data of distribution in land inequality between men and women, a similar pattern emerges in surface water utilization….
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