How do you quantify something as complex and personal as humor? Mathematicians have now developed…
Month: November 2015
Cage the fly: Walk-in field cages to assess mating compatibility in pest fruit flies
Fruit flies studies on mating compatibility have been examined to assess the usefulness of walk-in…
New membrane may solve fresh water shortages
Researchers have developed a technology that improves the removal of salt from seawater, a breakthrough…
Very large volcanic eruptions could lead to ice sheet instability
Massive volcanic eruptions could cause localized warming that might destabilize some of the world’s biggest…
Red clover genome to help restore sustainable farming
The DNA of red clover has been sequenced and assembled to help breeders improve the…
Shining light on microbial growth and death inside our guts
Population growth rates of the microbes that live inside mammalian gastrointestinal tracts can now be…
Immune cells make appendix ‘silent hero’ of digestive health
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are crucial for protecting against bacterial infection in people with compromised…
Simulating the jet streams and anticyclones of Jupiter and Saturn
A researcher has successfully generated 3-D simulations of deep jet streams and storms on Jupiter…
Missing link found between turbulence in collapsing star and hypernova, gamma-ray burst
Extremely bright supernovas, called hypernovae, have been linked to gamma-ray bursts, but theorists have struggled…
Advanced new camera can measure greenhouse gases
A camera so advanced that it can photograph and film methane in the air around…