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?
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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.
Tracking Bat Movements to Predict Rabies Outbreaks
Disease-carrying bats may bring deadly rabies outbreaks to the Peruvian coast by 2019, scientists predict.
Head in the Clouds
Are robotic cloud-based labs the future of research? Teodora Aldea explores how outsourcing routine experiments could help research by saving scientists time and money.
Are Your Clothes Smart Enough?
As clothing becomes increasingly technological, Stanford engineers create a new textile that cools the body. The secret? Infrared radiation.
Is There Anybody Out There?
Game changing discovery in the search for extra-terrestrial life – could Earth’s life-sustaining conditions also exist on nearby planet Proxima b?
The Glaring Menace of Future Solar Eruptions
Richard Murchie explores how the sun’s erratic nature puts modern society at risk – could an eruption on the sun’s surface cause major electrical failure on Earth?
