For The Better

New research provides evidence that electric fields shared among neurons via ‘ephaptic coupling’ provide the coordination necessary to assemble the multi-region neural ensembles (‘engrams’) that represent remembered information.

Indonesia, home to the largest tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia and over 17,500 islands, is a country packed with biodiversity and endangered species. However, scientists studying the region’s species and ecosystems are getting banned from Indones…

The material a bird selects for its nest depends on the dimensions of its beak, according to researchers.

Rising temperatures are causing British bees to wake up from hibernation almost a week earlier.

We all discard a huge amount of plastic and other human-made materials into the environment, and these are often picked up by birds. New research has shown that 176 bird species around the world are now known to include a wide range of anthropogenic ma…