For The Better

A mosquito known only by its scientific name, Culex lactator, is the latest to establish in the Sunshine State, according to a new study.

Language that is easier to process encourages continued reading, as does language that evokes anxious, exciting, and hopeful emotions.

Conditions mapped for the first time of polaron characteristics in 2D materials. TACC’s Frontera supercomputer generated quantum mechanical calculations on hexagonal boron nitride system of 30,000 atoms.

Physicists have detected neutrinos created by a particle collider. The discovery promises to deepen scientists’ understanding of the subatomic particles, which were first spotted in 1956 and play a key role in the process that makes stars burn.

Moderate levels of artificial light at night — like the fixture illuminating your backyard — bring more caterpillar predators and reduce the chance that these lepidoptera larvae grow up to become moths and serve as food for larger prey.

Deleting a gene that promotes magnesium transport into mitochondria (which are cells’ power plants) resulted in more efficient metabolism of sugar and fat in the energy centers. The result: skinny, healthy mice. Now the research team, has developed a s…

Collaborative research across the country has shown that strengthening the relationship between the student and advisor can increase retention rates in engineering doctoral studies.

While listening to a favorite song is a known mood booster, researchers have discovered that music-listening interventions also can make medicines more effective.

There is a relative increase of 20% to 30% in breast cancer risk associated with both combined and progesterone-only contraceptives, whatever the mode of delivery, though with five years of use, the 15-year absolute excess incidence is at most 265 case…

Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air with their rear ends. A new study explains just how. Beyond helping to explain how beetles thrive in environment…

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…