A researcher fed beetles to frogs. The encounter did not end as expected.

Underwater “sexual parasitism” between male and female allows two bodies to become one. Now we know the reason why.

Researchers discover links with earlier puberty and signs of more rapid cellular ageing

A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Stanford University has tested the viability of using a type of fungus found growing in some of the destroyed nuclear reactors at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant site to shield astronauts from radiation. They have written a paper describing their work and have uploaded it to the bioRxiv preprint site.

New research has found that adolescents who promised to be truthful were less likely to ‘cheat’ than those who did not, even when they could not be...

Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer’s disease.

Excessive drinking, exposure to air pollution and head injuries all increase dementia risk, experts say in a report revealing that up to 40% of dementia cases worldwide could be delayed or prevented by addressing 12 such lifestyle factors. Around 50 million people around the world live with dementia, including about 850,000 people in the UK. By 2040, it has been estimated there will be more than 1.2 million people living with dementia in England and Wales. There is currently no cure.

A 1,000-year-old recipe to treat eye infections could lead to an unorthodox way of combating antibiotic resistance. Garlic, onion, wine, and a dash of bovine bile. It’s a veritable witch’s brew, but as a new Scientific Reports paper shows, this medieval recipe, called “Bald’s eyesalve,” is effective at staving off...

The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE on Thursday, found that physical distancing policies enacted nationally in 46 countries prevented an estimated 1.57 million cases of COVID-19 over a two-week period, representing a 65 per cent reduction in new cases.

High-speed 3-D microscopy and mathematical analyses reveal that rolling and lopsided tail flicks keep the cells swimming in a straight line.

More than 200 genes with novel and known roles in glioblastoma – the most aggressive type of brain cancer – offer promising new drug targets. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and their collaborators engineered a new mouse model to show for the first time how a mutation in the well-known cancer gene, EGFR initiates glioblastoma, and works with a selection from more than 200 other genes to drive the cancer.

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that children could be asymptomatic but are likely to be spreaders of the virus. Researchers and scientists worldwide are still puzzled about why it seemed that the virus was not infecting children. Usually, for a respiratory disease like COVID-19, children are more likely to be quickly infected.

The test could spot the disease at the earliest stage before symptoms appear, studies suggest.

Background: There is uncertainty about the impact of internet use on mental health in older adults. Moreover, there is very little known specifically about the impact of particular purposes of internet use.

Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do

‘Lockdown may be the single most effective action a government can take during a pandemic to maintain psychological welfare,’ says researcher

Concrete sewer pipes around the world are most likely to fail either because their concrete is not strong enough or because they can’t handle the weight of trucks that drive over them, a new study indicates.

It may seem that people with elevated Dark Triad traits are not empathic, but it isn't so simple. In a basic sense empathy serves people higher in dark traits. Dark traits may be a "necessary evil", arguably important for group survival at critical times. Empathy, while serving altruism, is also a tool for the Machiavellian mind, which needs good “intel” for appraising, and potentially taking advantage, of others.

Existing limited evidence suggests that wearing face coverings to protect against COVID-19 does not lead to a false sense of security and is unlikely to increase the risk of infection through wearers foregoing other behaviours such as good hand hygiene, say researchers from the University of Cambridge and King’s College London.

The assay looks for stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver malignancies