Why You Shouldn’t Burn Your Toast
Derek Connor explores the world of chemistry taking place in your kitchen every time you cook a meal and looks at why it may be better to take your food out the oven a little sooner than you may normally.
Category: Life Sciences
Vampire Squid: Not a New B-movie Monster
The visage of the mysterious vampire squid evokes a certain kind of menace that few other animals can but what is it exactly?
Chimpanzee Culture
Chimpanzees display culturally-learned behaviours, such as tool use. But what’s the purpose of a mysterious, almost ritualistic, behaviour involving trees and stones?
Caring for Bacteria in Intensive Care Patients
Compared to healthy people, patients in Intensive Care Units have drastically different gut bacteria – leaving them vulnerable to serious infection and even death.
Shrimp Fight Club: Wasteful or Lifesaving?
Research on the mantis shrimp was initially scoffed at but quickly gained respect — why did people change their minds so quickly?
The Cupid Called Brain
Love and heartbreak — just chemicals? Alisha Aman explores the biology of falling in and out of love, and how it serves an evolutionary purpose.
Tracking Bat Movements to Predict Rabies Outbreaks
Disease-carrying bats may bring deadly rabies outbreaks to the Peruvian coast by 2019, scientists predict.
Devils’ Fight Club: Evolution vs. Cancer
Nope, this is not a Pokémon Go match we’re talking about: a new study shows that Tasmanian devils are evolving new ways to fight a deadly cancer.
