For The Better

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…

A new study describes topological control capabilities in an acoustic system at high technologically relevant frequencies. This work has implications for applications such as 5G communications and quantum information processing.

You can’t see it, but different substances in the petals of flowers create a ‘bulls-eye’ for pollinating insects, according to a scientist whose research sheds light on chemical changes in flowers which helps them respond to environmental changes, incl…

In the course of Alzheimer’s disease, two proteins called ‘amyloid’ and ‘tau’ accumulate in the brain. A new study with more than 200 participants now provides insights into the interaction of these pathological phenomena. The data suggest that tau loa…

A new study has found that women’s health research remains disproportionately focused on the reproductive years — particularly on pregnancy — with few articles on the major causes of illness and death in women.

Researchers have discovered argon trapped in air-hydrate crystals in ice cores, which can be used to reconstruct past temperature changes and climate shifts.