Monthly Archives: December 2018

It sounds like something out of a horror movie. Indeed, the brain-eating amoeba will get into the nose and starts to make its way...

BY PHILIP A LORING & RATANA CHUENPAGDEE KWAN PHAYAO, a large, crescent moon of a lake in Northern Thailand, is home to about 50 fish species, several hundred small-scale farmers...

HARNESSING nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth’s energy needs, is a step closer after researchers showed that using two types of imaging...

A NEW study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact. The...

THINK back to health class and picture a sperm. It’s got a smooth rounded head, with a long skinny tail at the end, right? As it turns...

THEY are lightweight, almost invisible, highly extensible and strong, and of course biodegradable: the threads spiders use to build their webs. In fact, spider silk belongs to the...

NEW research has reported effective conservation strategies that can mitigate the impacts of climate warming on sea turtle nesting success. In the article published by Scientific Reports, a range...

A TEAM of researchers, led by the University of Ports-mouth, have developed a bio-composite material using date palm fibre biomass (bio-mass is a term that includes waste material...

FUEL CELLS have not been particularly known for their practicality and affordability, but that may have just changed. There’s a new cell that runs on cheap fuel...

TESTS on more than 100 sea turles - spanning three oceans and all seven species - have revealed microplastics in the guts of every...