For The Better

In a multi-site study of medical records, researchers across the United States say they have documented a steep rise in type 2 diabetes among children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Computer modelling reveals animals rearing up to smell the air is part of an efficient strategy of alternating between sensory techniques for locating the source of a scent.

Research supports a causal relationship between air pollution and heart attacks since smokers, who already inhale smoke, were unaffected by dirty air.

Wind power is an increasingly popular form of renewable energy. But when it’s time to replace the huge turbine blades that convert wind into electricity, disposal is a problem. Today, scientists report a new composite resin for making these behemoths t…

Large pieces of plastic can break down into nanosized particles that often find their way into the soil and water. But they also float in the air, where their presence is less understood. As a step toward better understanding airborne nanoplastics, res…

Wooden objects are usually made by sawing, carving, bending or pressing. But now, scientists have developed flat wooden shapes extruded by a 3D printer which can be programmed to self-morph into complex shapes. In the future, this technique could be us…

A new study suggests that low-income parents in England buy unhealthy food influenced not only by its availability, cheapness and marketing, but by non-food aspects of wellbeing that they are unable to provide their families.

A simple conservation strategy deployed by conservationists and scientists is greatly assisting in the extraordinary success of threatened Roseate terns on Rockabill Island, off the coast of Dublin. Ireland is home to the majority of Europe’s Roseate T…

A new study provides for the first time the surprising evidence that four common nonexcitatory amino acids that usually make proteins which are essential to brain function, instead cause irreversible, destructive swelling of both the astrocytes that su…