Picky eaters? Cuttlefish show their intelligence by snubbing sub-standard snacks
A study has found that cuttlefish can pass a fishy version of the ‘marshmallow test’ – and those that can delay gratification the longest...
Cutting-edge analysis of prehistoric teeth sheds new light on the diets of lizards and...
New research has revealed that the diets of early lizards and snakes, which lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago, were more varied...
Ultrasonic cleaning of salad could reduce instances of food poisoning
A new study has shown that gentle streams of water carrying sound and microscopic air bubbles can clean bacteria from salad leaves more effectively...
Fish poop helps remove 1.65 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere
New research has shown that carbon in feces, respiration, and other excretions from fishes make up about 16% of the total carbon that sinks...
Stuck in Japan during lockdown, Professor solves problem of how to fit the proverbial...
For 100 years mathematicians have been trying to solve the question of whether it is possible to fit all four points of a rectangle...
Videos of “Dancing DNA” are revealed
Videos showing for the first time how small circles of DNA adopt dance-like movements inside a cell have been developed by researchers in Yorkshire.
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World’s oldest DNA reveals how mammoths evolved
An international team led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million...
Vaporised crusts of Earth-like planets found in dying stars
Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by University of Warwick astronomers, offering...
‘Magnetic graphene’ forms a new kind of magnetism
Researchers have identified a new form of magnetism in so-called magnetic graphene, which could point the way toward understanding superconductivity in this unusual type...
Cats’ love of catnip helps protect against mosquitoes
Catnip gives cats more than just a sense of euphoria – it also helps them to repel mosquitoes, a new study involving Liverpool researchers...