Category: 7. Science

Tiny tropical spiders in the Philippines and the Peruvian Amazon build giant, arachnid-like decoys in their webs to scare off predators, new research shows.

The outsize fake spiders are made of silk; plant debris; and dead, disembodied prey. Some…

New strategy to look at publishing infrastructures, with members “determined to accelerate full open access”

Coalition S will focus on the financial sustainability of open access scholarly publishing as part of its new framework for…

Light pollution is on the rise, increasing by around 2 per cent every year. And artificial light can disrupt the lives of countless creatures, causing migrating birds to lose their way, nocturnal animals to struggle with reproduction and even…

Our brains do not react in a fixed, mechanical way like electronic circuits. Even if we see the same scene every day on our commute to work, what we feel – and whether it leaves a lasting impression – depends on our internal state at that…

Using the…

Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, in a letter to a fellow chemist, first suggested the name ‘proteins’ for a particular class of biological substances, deriving it from the Greek word proteios, meaning ‘primary’ or ‘of first…