Long stigmatised for bringing bad luck or for links with the occult, black cats have found salvation in a Spanish town that has temporarily banned their adoption to ward off

Africa has become a global hub for second-hand vehicles, many of which arrive with already worn-out tyres. Over 60 per cent of registered vehicles on the continent are used imports, and a projected increase of 10 million vehicles by 2050...

Molecular Psychiatry - Interpeduncular GABAergic neuron function controls threat processing and innate defensive adaptive learning

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors—wide-eyed and heart racing—to instinctively freeze and flee.

When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that can subsequently damage critical molecules like DNA. Now, Professor Petr Slav...

The blood–brain barrier was conventionally seen as a static protective structure, but a more complex, dynamic view of this barrier has now emerged. In this Review, Friedman et al. discuss the dynamic ...

Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius calculated that burning fossil fuels (coal) will, over time, lead to a hotter Earth. His findings led the way for the emergence of modern climate science and a better ...

This materials scientist builds energy storage and conversion components from biomass waste

A scanning electron microscope operated at 20 keV with distortion corrected ptychography achieves sub-ångström resolution, thus offering a compact and lower-cost alternative TEM imaging method that is...

“there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.” ― Robert Graves, "I, Claudius: from the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius" Yesterday was the anniversary of Roman Emperor Claudius I's death in 54 A.D. Like many of his family, his death did not occur naturally - he was poisoned, likely by his wife - setting the stage for his great-nephew, Nero, to become Emperor in his place. I've always loved the writing of Robert Graves (Gods, Graves, and Scholars…

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Introducing X1: The world's first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the humanoid's back, and later, drive away.