Secrets of animal camouflage: Video reveals how predator vision works
06 August 2014How do animals see? It’s a question that vexes biologists and fascinates anyone who has watched animals go about their business: what does the world...
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How do animals see? It’s a question that vexes biologists and fascinates anyone who has watched animals go about their business: what does the world...
The Royal Society has announced the recipients of its awards, medals and prizes for 2104.
The relationship between saturated fat and type 2 diabetes may be more complex than previously thought, according to the results of a large international study...
Method can produce strong, lightweight materials with specific surface properties.
Colourful LEDs made from a material known as perovskite could lead to LED displays which are both cheaper and easier to manufacture in future.
Anthropology looks at human differences in its study of the ‘other’ and at human commonalities in its more recent focus on the ‘suffering’. In identifying...
A team of chemists from the University of Cambridge and New York University has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices...
Siegfried Sassoon’s First World War diaries – some bearing traces of mud from the Somme – are among 4,100 pages from his personal archive being...
The increasing urbanisation of rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa could lead to an explosion in incidences of heart disease and diabetes, according to a new...