Beetles cooperate on tricky dung moves
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world. They also possess an exceptional ability to cooperate. Research shows that female and male spider dung…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Dung beetles are among the strongest animals in the world. They also possess an exceptional ability to cooperate. Research shows that female and male spider dung…
Wildfires have consumed millions of hectares of land in recent weeks in Brazil. Brazil is burning. From the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands, flames have consumed millions of hectares…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are continuing to fall behind their peers with the gap widening despite the introduction of SEND legislation. This…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain After Charla’s landlord failed to repair leaks that caused the ceiling to collapse in her daughter’s bedroom, she withheld her rent. Shortly after, her landlord filed…
Credit: Langmuir (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02481 Depression is a significant challenge to diagnose and treat. Among the factors influencing depression onset and severity, there is growing evidence for chemical imbalances that…
The William Herschel Telescope in La Palma, Spain. Credit: PAUS team A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented precision over a…
In preparation for building the new tunnel section, workers removed about 20,000 cubic yards of dirt, weighing more than 40 million pounds, to expose where the extension would connect to…
Shutterstock/Creative-Touch A century ago, it was possible for a physicist to know almost everything there was to know about physics. Now, this is far from the case. It isn’t that…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Preschool teachers have different views on finger counting. Some teachers consider finger counting use in children to signal that they are struggling with math, while others…
Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos) feeding on the surface of the ocean on fishery bycatch. Credit: Carla du Toit Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive…