For The Better

A new study sheds light on the little-known phenomenon of binaural beats, where sounds purportedly evoke psychoactive effects.

New sustainable coding platform automatically and invisibly transforms Microsoft MakeCode into a version that supports programming electronic devices that harvest energy from ambient sources, such as vibrations, movement, radio frequency transmissions …

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang — the farthest individual star ever seen to date.

Deserts may seem lifeless and inert, but they are very much alive. Sand dunes, in particular, grow and move — and according to a decades long research project, they also ‘breathe’ humid air.

Stem cells can develop into many different types of cells in the body. For instance, when a person is injured, stem cells come to the site of the injury and aid in healing damaged tissues. New nanotechnology could leverage the body’s regenerative poten…

Lions typically aren’t keen on making new friends. The giant cats guard their territory fiercely and can mortally wound a foe with a single swipe. While aggression is an advantage for apex predators in the wild, it poses real challenges for lions on re…

New researcher has demonstrated that people’s spatial navigation ability is influenced by their geographical origin. Growing up in rural or urban areas, or in cities of varying complexity, influences our sense of direction in adulthood. These results w…

Two studies provide a radically new picture of how bacterial cells continually repair damaged sections (lesions) in their DNA.

Plants rely on their ability to sense light for survival. But unlike animals, plants don’t have eyes full of photoreceptors to capture and convey messages from visual stimuli. Instead, plants are coated with a network of light-sensing photoreceptors th…