Insights on fast cockroaches can help teach robots to walk
Cockroach on a slippery tile. (stock image)
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Using the example of cockroaches, the Cologne-based zoologist Dr Tom Weihmann and his team...
Weight management program can put type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 2 diabetes (stock image).
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Type 2 diabetes can be reversed following an intensive weight management programme, according a randomised trial...
Physicists excited by discovery of new form of matter, excitonium
This is an artist's depiction of the collective excitons of an excitonic solid. These excitations can be thought of as propagating domain walls (yellow)...
Jena Experiment: Loss of species destroys ecosystems
Due to its breadth, the Jena experiment proves for the first time that a loss of biodiversity has negative consequences for many individual components...
Rise of ampicillin resistance began years before human use
Low doses of penicillin routinely fed to livestock in the 1950s in North America and Europe may have encouraged antibiotic-resistant bacteria to evolve and...
Scientists observe supermassive black hole in infant universe
Artist's conceptions of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big...
Birth of a storm in the Arabian Sea validates climate model
Cyclone Chapala over the Gulf of Aden Nov. 2, 2015.
Credit: NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response
Researchers from Princeton University and the National...
Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane
MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes and can produce a precursor to methane.
Credit: David Born
Industrial...
Living on thin air — microbe mystery solved
Adams Flat, one of the two sites in Antarctica where microbes were collected.
Credit: Phil O'Brien
UNSW-Sydney led scientists have discovered that microbes in Antarctica have...
Nodding raises likability and approachability
Examples of 3D CG models used in the study.
Credit: Kawahara J. and Osugi T., Perception, September 24, 2017
In many countries, nodding is a communicative...
Trophy hunting may cause extinction in a changing environment
Male impala fighting.
Credit: Rob Knell
Trophy hunting and other activities involving the targeting of high-quality male animals could lead to the extinction of certain species...
