Not much is known about the predator fly Laphria saffrana. New research identified how they count the wingbeats of their…
A queen’s main job in the hive is to lay eggs and pass genes on to offspring. But many bee species do just fine without…
The dangers posed by the largely unregulated commercial data market prompted the Biden administration to try to prevent…
The average might come in handy for certain data analyses, but is any one person really ‘average’?
In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by…
A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the…
IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation…
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed…
The people manning the guns are also at risk of injury from the force of the weapon.
Setting specific, hard-to-reach goals seems to help people maintain motivation, while preventing them from feeling as drained…
People young and old love the classic video game Tetris. A working knowledge of the spatial reasoning concepts underlying…
Essential fats found in fish and nuts are tied to many protective health benefits. Researchers found they may also slow…
There are an infinite number of paths an ice crystal can take before you touch it.
‘Loopy’ is a multicellular robot inspired by biology and designed to react to its environment without instructions on…
Pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and get results out as quickly as possible has led to weak study designs and shortened…
Many children’s educational shows undergo pre-screening to make sure each episode delivers its intended message. Adult…
Satellite photography of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut shows block after block of destroyed buildings. Satellite radar provides…
Governments can exclude certain groups of people in policies and services not only by the type of data they collect but…
The Nobel Prize-winning Luria−Delbrück experiment showed that random mutations in bacteria can allow them to develop…
People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While…