Artificial intelligence tackling coronavirus
Image credit: MaxPixel An outbreak of the latest coronavirus strain to cause acute respiratory disease, COVID-19, has shown artificial intelligence...
Secrets of the salamander: Genes identified in limb regeneration
Researchers at Yale University have used an adapted method of haploid genetic screening, which involves creating transplantable grafts from mutated...
A good deal gone bad: how evolving more intricate brains made us vulnerable to autism spectrum disorders
Image credit: Meo via Pexels.com What if the evolutionary changes which made us human also laid the foundation for some...
Coronavirus – a breakdown
Image credit: Katie Chao and Ben Muessig via Flickr 2019-nCoV, a previously unknown type of coronavirus, emerged in the central...
The Microbiome: Can New Sequencing Techniques Fast Track Therapeutic Discovery?
A true staple of modern pop-science, the age-old nature vs nurture debate is the bread and butter for many. However,...
Should we tax plastic?
Governments across the globe have started to consider the introduction of plastic taxes, with a largely negative reception. In Italy,...
Domestication Syndrome: how to make your own pets and keep yourself young with one weird trick
Image Credit: Pixabay via Pexels.com On a farm in Siberia, a six-decade-long experiment is still ongoing: selectively breeding foxes to...
‘Australia is on fire.’ Updates for a devastated country
Photo credit: Pixabay via Pexels ‘Australia is on fire.’ This has been the headline on most news outlets and across...
Concerns raised over mini-brain sentience
Photo of the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) laboratories and researchers of their Division of Pre-clinical Innovation (DPI).Image...