Yellowhammers are small, colourful and apparently innocuous birds, but they were once considered to be enemies by farmers in New Zealand. Yellowhammers were introduced there to help fight insect crop pests, but instead became ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2015
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This year has seen a series of reports about likely pensions shortfalls and the urgent need to increase savings.
Economics & Business
Dec 24, 2014
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he Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, revamped, restored and expanded after a three-year closure, is reopening at last, all decked out for the 21st century in its historic Carnegie Mansion home just a few blocks up ...
Other
Dec 9, 2014
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Queensland scientists delving into newspaper archives have discovered that catch rates for Queensland's pink snapper fishery have declined almost 90 per cent since the 19th Century.
Ecology
Nov 18, 2014
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Ask people what they know about the frontiers of mathematics research, and the response is usually some variation on: "What is there to research about math?"
Mathematics
Nov 17, 2014
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What do an accelerator complex at Cern, a manufacturing center in 19th century Philadelphia and lotus cultivation during the Qing dynasty all have in common? All such activities generate knowledge and know-how. And all of ...
Social Sciences
Oct 21, 2014
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Theoretical physicists are caricatured in the popular imagination as only involved in abstruse and difficult-to-imagine topics. But some of these theoretical physicists are involved in something closer to home: using artificial ...
General Physics
Sep 23, 2014
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When Texas police officers answer an emergency domestic violence call these days, they go armed with a gun—and a piece of paper.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2014
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(Phys.org) —In the 19th century, billions of passenger pigeons crowded the skies of North America. By 1914, the birds had become extinct. Previously, ecologists thought human activity was responsible for the passenger pigeon's ...
Harvard University scientists have confirmed that a 19th century French treatise in its libraries is bound in human skin, Harvard University said this week, after a bevvy of scientific testing.
Archaeology
Jun 7, 2014
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