For The Better

A team of scientists has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots.

Some species of tardigrades, or water bears as the tiny aquatic creatures are also known, can survive in different environments often hostile or even fatal to most forms of life. For the first time, researchers describe a new mechanism that explains ho…

A research team has developed a high-resolution holographic endoscope system thinner than an injection needle for microscopic imaging inside a curved passage.

The survival of an ant colony depends on its members being able to distinguish their own nestmates from ants of a foreign — and possibly hostile — colony. This so-called nestmate recognition is based on scents emitted by a very thin layer of wax that…

Jupiter-sized planets can be stolen or captured by massive stars in the densely populated stellar nurseries where most stars are born, a new study has found.

Healthy young people with just a mild COVID infection can sometimes suffer temporary post-infection consequences such as tiredness, loss of smell and taste or reduced fertility. These symptoms usually improve with time. But a new conducted with Swiss A…

Due to the uncertainty of the timing of vaccine approval at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers struggled to find the best mitigation measures. In a new study, researchers analyzed how the expectation of a vaccine influences optimal lo…

After a 60-minute walk in nature, activity in brain regions involved in stress processing decreases.

A team of physicists and chemists presents an organic thin-film sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light and achieves a spectral resolution below one nanometer. As integrated components, the thin-film sensors co…