Month: September 2014

Conventional wisdom has long held that corals — whose calcium-carbonate skeletons form the foundation of…

Female magpies have been shown to be more adventurous than their male siblings, according to…

Adoptions have been running at record levels in the UK, with recent figures showing an…

It may be possible to train the brain to prefer healthy low-calorie foods over unhealthy…

About 50 years ago, electron microscopy revealed the presence of tiny blob-like structures that form…

Bats emit ultrasound pulses and measure the echoes reflected from their surroundings. They have an…

Greenhouses have improved the possibilities of invasion of greenhouse whitefly into the wild in the…

‘Green’ offices with plants make staff happier and more productive than ‘lean’ designs stripped of…

A new blood test provides a fast and accurate tool to diagnose tuberculosis in children,…

One in 60 people over the age of 60 who had invisible blood in their…