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‘Nuts and Bolts’ showcases the 7 building blocks of modern engineering

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​science news​​​ By Anna Demming What do you get when you pose a challenge, weave in a cast of characters driven by hunger, frustration, curiosity, compassion or maybe even a little spite, and throw →

A pivotal quantum theory holds up even in extreme electric fields

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover To put one of physicists’ most important theories to the test, scientists go to extremes. Extremely strong electromagnetic fields, that is. The theory of quantum →

Under very rare conditions, Alzheimer’s disease may be transmitted

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​science news​​​ By Laura Sanders Under extremely rare circumstances, it appears that Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted between people. Five people who received contaminated injections of a →

Women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s – but our research suggests a specific brain enzyme could help protect them

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​conversation​​​ The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s, is a progressive, life limiting, neurodegenerative condition, which damages and destroys parts of the nervous system, especially the →

What parrots can teach us about human intelligence

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​science news​​​ By Erin Garcia de Jesús Bruce the kea is missing his upper beak, giving the olive green parrot a look of perpetual surprise. But scientists are the astonished ones. The typical kea →

Handwriting may boost brain connections more than typing does

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​science news​​​ By Claudia López Lloreda Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories for some, but handwriting can boost connectivity across brain regions, some →

Many but not all of the world’s aquifers are losing water

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​science news​​​ By Carolyn Gramling The world’s precious stash of subterranean freshwater is shrinking — and in nearly a third of aquifers, that loss has been speeding up in the last couple of →

This first-of-its-kind palm plant flowers and fruits entirely underground

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science news By Darren Incorvaia Palm trees are often associated with Hollywood Boulevard and tropical resorts, but their relatives in the palm family Arecaceae can come in many different shapes and →

DNA from stone age chewing gum sheds light on diet and disease in Scandinavia’s ancient hunter-gatherers

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​conversation​​​ Some 9,700 years ago on an autumn day, a group of people were camping on the west coast of Scandinavia. They were hunter-gatherers that had been fishing, hunting and collecting →

Astronomers are puzzled over an enigmatic companion to a pulsar

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​science news​​​ By Adam Mann Circling around a pulsar in our galaxy is a mysterious entity that is either a very heavy neutron star, one of the lightest black holes ever discovered, or an exotic and →

Astronomers have snapped a new photo of the black hole in galaxy M87

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science news By Adam Mann Head’s up space fans: A new picture of the supermassive black hole lurking in the galaxy M87 just dropped. The new image looks a lot like the previous, headline-grabbing →

War in Europe is more than 5,000 years old – new research

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​conversation​​​ Conflict has existed throughout human history, and it has often been violent. Attacks, assassinations, raids, ambushes and vendettas feature in archaeological records almost as far →

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