World-first research into a rare family of insects will help scientists understand how the common bush-crickets we are familiar with today developed their highly specialised acoustic functions.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2017
0
111
An Ohio zoo says necropsy results for the world's first gorilla born in a zoo indicate she probably died of a heart attack.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2017
0
4
Taxi drivers in Spain's two main cities are striking to urge authorities to protect their regulated service against companies like Uber and Cabify, which offer cheaper services.
Business
Mar 16, 2017
0
5
Jülich researchers have succeeded in controlling the growth of organic molecules using a special trick. Molecules that repel each other play a key role in this process: due to their opposing forces, they always keep a certain ...
Materials Science
Mar 16, 2017
0
4
Is it… a balloon? An airship of some sort, tethered to the turf? A children's pool, blown onto its side?
Engineering
Mar 16, 2017
0
11
I hate ironing, I'll do more or less anything to avoid it. So faced with a giant pile of laundry I got easily distracted. I started to wonder why those shirts emerged from the machine looking like a tangled bag of rags. How ...
Materials Science
Mar 16, 2017
2
10
Adolescents who sexually harass others have had casual sex more often than those who do not harass others. They also fantasize more about casual sex and find it more acceptable to have sex without any commitment or emotional ...
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2017
0
6
The ability to identify individual plant species from tiny amounts of material has a surprising range of uses, from monitoring bee populations to assessing the contents of food and nutritional supplements, as well as working ...
Biotechnology
Mar 16, 2017
0
9
Venomous snakebites kill an estimated 150,000 people around the world each year—amid severe shortages of fair-priced antivenom and health providers trained to use the lifesaving treatment.
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2017
0
6
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has completed another set of important science calibration tests before a year of aerobraking gets underway.
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2017
0
87
