Bonobos Are Eager To Help Strangers Without Being Asked
While altruism is often practiced between close friends, people will also sometimes help random strangers they meet. New research shows that this social behavior is…
Read more
Identifying Cognitive Abilities To Serve As Intervention Targets For Treating Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression, have a devastating impact on a patient’s life and contribute great economic burden through staggering…
Read more
The Effects Of Vegetation On Turbulent Flow And Erosion In Coastal Environments
In the past, studies concerning the presence of vegetation in canals have been conducted in order to have information on the velocity diagrams and, therefore,…
Read more
Detection On The Go For A Common Viral Pathogen
Human noroviruses are a leading cause of gastroenteritis globally and inflict a considerable public health burden. The viruses are easily transmitted, sometimes through foods, but…
Read more
Microtubules And Cell Division: An Unexpected Journey
Microtubules play a crucial role in segregating chromosomes from one cell to another during cell mitosis and division. They function as a skeleton to give…
Read more
The End Of The Dinosaurs Marked The End Of Most Nocturnal Mammals
We wake up from a night’s sleep and go about our day until it becomes dark again and we head off to bed. That is…
Read more
Deepwater Horizon Blowout Depleted Light Rare Earth Elements
Methane is an important ‘greenhouse gas’; that is, a gas that plays a role in earth’s heat balance and hence our climate. In fact, molecule…
Read more
Ban On The Use Of Bee-Killing Pesticides In U.S. Wildlife Refuges Overturned
Back in April the EU voted to completely ban the use of clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam; all part of a group of chemicals called neonicotinoids – a widely used group…
Read more
Mercury, Or The Beauty Of Ageing Planets
The Academy Award winner Anna Magnani once told her make-up artist: “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me my life to grow them.” [F1]…
Read more
Is Energy Metabolism Homogeneous Within A Cell?
Energy metabolism is the essential group of chemical reactions that generates the energy that maintains our cells alive. But that isn’t all energy metabolism does!…
Read more
Squeezing Dynamics In A Nanowire System
Nanowires provide novel mechanisms for scaling down semiconductor electronics [1]. Semiconducting nanowires have electronically switchable characteristics suitable for simple readout that is appropriate for sensing….
Read more