What is entropy, and why is it always increasing?
Room's a mess again? It's physics's fault.
The first prescription video game fights ADHD
It's not meant as a full replacement for treatment, but it does help children manage their AHDH.
Wildfires can change the songs birds sing
Events such as wildfire spread birds -- and their songs -- around.
New fossil insect species points to a Canada-Australia land route 50 million years ago
Better understanding of such fossils lets us peer into the geological past.
Virtual private networks grow popular under the lockdown
With our online activity rising to such prominence in our lives, many people are looking to protect both their privacy...
Volcano-dwelling beetle inspires new ‘passive cooling’ material
It helps disperse heat and reflect sunlight.
Last month was the warmest May ever recorded
Average temperatures over land set a new record, while ocean temperatures ranked only second highest.
A mutated coronavirus, better at infecting cells, is now “dominant” in the world
Whether or not this makes the virus more transmissible in society isn't yet clear.
In Poznan, Poland, eight clams get to decide if people in the city get water or not
They might be small, but these mussels shoulder tremendous responsibility.
Fossil Friday: the UK’s first-ever pterodactyl fossil
The dinosaur belonged to a family of pterodactyls called tapejarids.
New treatment could finally prevent anaphylaxis in people with allergies
A preventive treatment could prevent a lot of deaths.
Foxes living in the city are starting to become domesticated
They seem to like city life.
Good news — study finds that people generally try to help one another out
We have a desire to help hardwired into us.
Modified immune cells could be a long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes
Patients with type 1 diabetes currently need daily injections of insulin to manage the disease.
Climate change will make droughts more intense, more frequent
New research from ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australia, says we'll see longer and more frequent droughts due...
The iconic ‘Dumbo’ octopus stars in the deepest-ever octopus sighting
It's the deepest confirmed sighting of any cephalopod.
Stress greys our hair out, and the process is reversible within a ‘relatively short’ timeframe
Our mental state does have an effect on the hair, it seems.
The coronavirus cleaned our air — it might clean the waters, too
Cleaner air might make for cleaner waters, too.
Humanity is making trees grow less and live shorter lives
Its a bad time to be a tree.
