What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and what can we learn from it?
Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...
How to prepare for your bilingual baby
Expecting a baby, especially a first baby, is a lot for any new parent. There are so many unknowns and so much to plan for: where your baby will sleep, how you will organize feeding, changing and ...
What do insects do all winter?
You are standing in a forest in the middle of winter and the temperature has dropped below zero. The ground is covered in ...
Leaves' resilience to raindrops offer insights into energy harvesting potential
To a leaf, a falling raindrop is equivalent in mass to a bowling ball dropping on a person—so how does the leaf survive? New ...
Twisted Edison: Filaments curling at the nanoscale produce light waves that twirl as they travel
Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of ...
Researchers develop tool to fast-track measurement of protein interactions for drug discovery
A team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has created a platform, called SIMPL2, that improves the study of ...
Solar geoengineering could save 400,000 lives a year
When it comes to finding solutions to climate change, there's no shortage of technologies vying for attention, from renewable ...
Decoding atmospheric effects of gravity waves with high-res climate simulations
Researchers at Stanford University, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, or ECMWF, and Oak Ridge National ...
New wildlife model captures species interactions in New York State
Cornell ecologists and colleagues have developed a new model that captures the abundance of wildlife species in a region and ...
Biologists studying apples discover structural cell protein also directly regulates gene transcription
A cell protein previously believed only to provide a scaffolding for DNA has also been shown to directly influence DNA ...
Machine learning speeds up prediction of materials' spectral properties
Many techniques in computational materials science require scientists to identify the right set of parameters that capture ...
Microbiome study finds bacteria in human gut rarely update their CRISPR defense systems
Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...