For The Better

They’re well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at ‘playing dead’, a behavior that researchers believe is a recorded world first.

The theory that water-breathing animals such as fish will shrink due to global warming has been called into question by a new study.

The touch of another person may increase levels of the ‘feelgood’ hormone oxytocin. But the context really matters. The situation impacts oxytocin levels not only in the moment, but also later.

A new study has shown that the human visual system can ‘trick’ the brain into making inaccurate assumptions about the size of objects in the world around them.

Privacy and security features that aim to give consumers more control over the sharing of their data by smartphone apps are widely misunderstood, shows new research from the University of Bath’s School of Management.

One of the basic and crucial embryonic processes to unfold in virtually every living organism is the formation of hollow, tubular structures that go on to form blood vessels or a digestive tract, and through branching and differentiation, complex organ…

Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows — for the first time — that some of Earth’s earliest animals managed to be picky about where they lived.

A new drug candidate targeting E. coli in the gut is in phase 1 clinical trials. According to a new paper it may improve the well-being of blood cancer patients and reduce their mortality rate from E. coli infections.

Fungal networks interconnecting trees in a forest is a key factor that determines the nature of forests and their response to climate change. These networks have also been viewed as a means for trees to help their offspring and other tree-friends, acco…

Researchers have discovered new insights into how the human brain makes perceptual judgements of the external world. The study explored the computational mechanisms used by the human brain to perceive the size of objects in the world around us.

A study has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in western Europe.

A new U of T Scarborough study finds that climate change is causing a commercially significant marine crab to lose its sense of smell, which could partially explain why their populations are thinning.

For three years at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of students spent an estimated 56,000 hours analyzing the behavior of hundreds of solar flares. Their results could help astrophysicists understand how the sun’s corona reaches temperature…

Researchers have found that the drug solriamfetol is the most effective treatment for excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) for people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

New research found that people living with HIV that have had pulmonary tuberculosis had broader and more potent HIV antibody responses and differences in HIV sequences predicted to be antibody resistant as compared to those without suspected or documen…

Small-scale wildlife surveys can reveal the health of entire ecosystems, new research shows.

Researchers describe developing a super-resolution imaging platform technology to improve understanding of how nanoparticles interact within cells.

A new study in mice and rats found that restoring certain signals in a brain region that processes smells countered depression.