Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It’s because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems.
Paper-mills (fake journal article factories) are undermining the integrity of science.
AuthorAID, LinkedIn and WeChat can help to plug the connections gap when events get cancelled.
Rather than relying on sunlight, some Antarctic bacteria live on inorganic compounds found in air.
To interpret the world through vision, human eyes have four photoreceptors, birds have six, mantis shrimps have 16.
Australians overwhelmingly trust in science and scientists – and we strongly fear negative consequences for our society if people don’t value science enough.
The annual Comedy Wildlife Photography awards had some hilarious entries.
These transmitters weigh less than a gram and can be attached to individual insects. This means scientists can track them directly as they migrate.
“Singing” ice, a seal that sounds like it is in space, and a seismic airgun thundering like a bomb are some of the noises released by two marine acoustic labs.
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