Labrador retriever owners are likely familiar with how persistent their dogs can be in their quest for food, whether begging under the dinner table or stealing a snack left unattended. It’s no surprise, then, that Labs are among the
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Warming is chasing cloud forests steadily uphill
Cloud forests are strange and ghostly places — akin to coral reefs hidden high on tropical mountains. Stunted trees loom in the mist, gnarled trunks and branches crusted in moss, lichens, orchids, ferns, bromeliads and even climbing…
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Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US – there are ways you can help save them
If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your imagination.
From 2000 to 2020, the number of butterflies fell by 22% across the continental United States. That’s 1 in 5 butterflies lost. The findings…
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Your dog’s weight struggles might be genetic (just like in humans)
Ever wondered why some dogs seem naturally rotund, no matter how much they run around? Turns out, the same genes that contribute to obesity in humans are also found in our pooches.
In a new genome study, scientists have pinpointed several genes…
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From Circular to Elliptical: How Planet Size Affects Orbit Shape
How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of researchers…
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Antibody Response Improves Understanding of Step A
Strep A is a bacterial infection that can infect both children and adults. Worldwide, 750 million people are affected by Strep A, which leads to over 500,000 deaths each year. The infection is caused by the…
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Lightening the load of augmented reality glasses
An international team of scientists developed augmented reality glasses with technology to receive images beamed from a projector, to resolve some of the existing limitations of such glasses, such as their weight and bulk. The team’s research is…
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Smart, energy-efficient robot grippers cut production costs
Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot technology that needs 90% less electricity than…
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Highly radioactive nuclear waste: how to keep it from oblivion
Sweden’s radioactive nuclear waste will be stored in a sealed bedrock repository for 100,000 years. It will be hazardous for a very long time. So how can we ensure that humanity does not forget that it is there? Researchers at Linköping…
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Researchers reveal nitrogen’s dominant role in global organic aerosol absorption
A collaborative research team led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and the National Center for Applied Mathematics Shenzhen (NCAMS) has introduced a…
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