11 June 2021
Sexual selection, a mechanism of evolution that can drive the appearance of bright feathers and elaborate horns, is more widespread among females than many researchers expected
3 June 2021
University students tend to get lower grades if their classes and lectures begin early in the morning, because they struggle to wake up early enough to attend them
12 May 2021
In 2018, hundreds of slabs of rubber washed up on the Brazilian coastline – they have been identified as cargo from the shipwrecked SS Rio Grande from the second world war
26 April 2021
When lager is poured at 6°C, anywhere between 200,000 and 2 million tiny bubbles form, depending on the height and tilt of the glass
8 April 2021
People expect dark and milk chocolate to be taste more bitter if it is in black packaging, while yellow and pink packaging is associated with sweeter-tasting chocolate
4 March 2021
When an egg is heated, its proteins unfold and form bonds with each other – an X-ray analysis has shown this happening on the micrometre scale over the first 160 seconds of cooking
19 February 2021
Covid-19 cases and deaths are falling in India and there are no signs of a second wave yet, which could be due to exposure to other seasonal coronaviruses
