Science & Technology

Scientists have come up with a system of measuring animal welfare that enables reliable comparison across different types of pig farming.

New research has debunked the idea that there is an ‘obesity paradox’, whereby patients with heart failure who are overweight or obese are thought to be less likely to end up in hospital or die than people of normal weight. The study, which is publishe…

Researchers have improved the Faradaic efficiency of the nitrogen reduction reaction into ammonia by straightforward optimization of chemical process parameters. They found that trace water was the probable source of the high selectivity by facilitatin…

Temperature influences how badly pesticides affect bees’ behavior, suggesting uncertain impacts under climate change, according to a new study.

Following enormous collisions, such as asteroid impacts, some amount of material from an impacted world may be ejected into space. This material can travel vast distances and for extremely long periods of time. In theory this material could contain dir…

With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest they’ve ever been to finding an analog of Earth’s ‘twin.’