Excavations conducted under Turkey’s “Heritage for the Future” project have uncovered a large Roman-era residential complex known as the “Mosaic House” in ancient Pergamon.
Pergamon was an ancient Greek city situated on the northern edge…
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Physicists Map Out Forces Acting inside Proton
University of Adelaide’s Dr. Ross Young and colleagues from the QCDSF Collaboration are exploring the structure of subatomic matter to try and provide further insight into the forces that underpin the natural world. Their result is possibly…
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The Green Anesthesia Initiative: A New Path to Sustainable Health Care
How can greener anesthesia help both patients and the environment? This is what a recent study published in The Lancer Planetary Health hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of Michigan…
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Study: Walnut-Rich Breakfast Enhances Cognitive Performance throughout the Day
Eating 50 grams of walnuts mixed into muesli and yoghurt led to faster reaction times throughout the day and better memory performance later in the day when compared to eating an equivalent calorie-matched breakfast without nuts, according to…
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Hinting at answer to a chicken-or-egg question on evolution — Harvard Gazette
For biochemists, it’s the which-came-first question: oxygen production by photosynthesis or oxygen consumption by aerobic metabolism?
In photosynthesis, algae and plants take in sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into fuel for…
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Mega-iceberg from Antarctica on collision course with South Georgia: Harbinger of things to come?
It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change is making it happen more frequently, with…
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Research provides new detail on the impact of volcanic activity on early marine life
Analysis of fossilised rocks known as stromatolites from more than two-and-a-half billion years ago has provided new insights into the conditions on Earth before the evolution of oxygen.
Led by Northumbria University researcher, Dr Ashley Martin,…
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Ultra Processed Foods Contribute to High Obesity Levels in Canadian Children
A recent longitudinal study on Canadian children published in Journal of the American Medical Association has provided significant insights into the relationship between ultra-processed food (UPF) intake…
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How a puffin patrol in Iceland is saving the iconic seabirds
A small, rocky island off Iceland is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Atlantic puffins.
When breeding season is in full swing, around 1.5 million adults pair up and nestle into burrows on the grassy seaside slopes…
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The Surprisingly Independent Evolution of the Avian Brain
A part of the brain called the pallium is responsible for many complex functions. In mammals, the pallium is thought to be where the neocortex forms, and gives rise to the cerebral cortex and isocortex….
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