Animals as Therapists?
Therapeutic riding as occupational therapy, dogs visiting children with learning disabilities in school or hens spending time with seniors in elderly homes – so...
Birds Are Linked to Happiness Levels
A new study reveals that greater bird biodiversity brings greater joy to people, according to recent findings from the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity...
We Thought We Knew How Sperm Swam, But It Was Just...
Sperm is critical for the fertilisation of almost every living organism on our planet, including humans. To reproduce, human sperm have to swim a...
Why Are Only 10% of People Left-Handed? Here’s What Scientists Know...
Are you a rightie or a leftie? No, we're not talking politics here, we're talking handedness. And unless you happen to have an abundance...
Cell Phone-Induced Bodily Harm: How The Bees Can Help
Did you know that your cell phone technically microwaves your brain, sometimes using about the same frequencies found in a microwave oven? And did...
DNA may not be life’s instruction book—just a jumbled list of...
The common view of heredity is that all information passed down from one generation to the next is stored in an organism's DNA. But...
Top 20 Foods High in Soluble Fiber
Dietary fiber is the carbohydrate in plants that your body cannot digest. Though it's essential to your gut and overall health, most people don't reach...
Bats can use ‘vocal learning’ to change their tune
Humans learn to speak by mimicking speech sounds. Are there other mammals who can learn sounds by imitation? In an experimental study, researchers from...
Sushi Parasite Has Increased 283x in Nearly 40 Years
The population of a marine parasite that sometimes worms its way into sushi has increased by 283 times in the last nearly 40 years,...
Scientists Predict the Amazon Rainforest May Disappear Within the Next 50 Years
The Amazon rainforest is Earth’s largest rainforest. 2.72 million square miles in size, the Amazon basin is roughly the size of forty-eight contiguous United...
