Blood-sucking mosquitoes will be lured away from populated areas using so-called “sugar traps” in accordance with a new technique being developed by scientists at Cardiff University. A specially-devised cocktail of attractant chemicals will mimic the smell of trees and other plant flowers
Oncologists in the U.K. have developed an AI model to help predict whether aggressive forms of breast cancer will spread based on changes in a patient’s lymph nodes. The research was published Thursday in the Journal of Pathology by Breast Cancer Now
Orcas have reportedly attacked and sunk three boats off the coast of Spain in apparent acts of revenge that experts worry other whales in their pod might copy. “The little ones shook the rudder at the back while the big one repeatedly
Scientists have found a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections – and they did it using artificial intelligence. Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Canada’s McMaster University have identified a new antibiotic that can kill
Forensics officers at the scene in Sutton-on-Ashfield (Image: SWNS) Police have launched a murder investigation after a human skeleton was discovered in a field in Nottinghamshire. Specialist officers have been drafted in to work alongside a team of scientists with cops admitting
Researchers say they have found a hidden version of a Bible passage that was left undiscovered for more than 1,500 years underneath a previously discovered section using ultraviolet lights. Historian Grigory Kessel from the Austrian Academy of Sciences unveiled this groundbreaking find
A series of minor tremors recorded on the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm Saturday has puzzled scientists, who now say they were caused by “acoustic pressure waves from an unknown source.” At first the tremors were thought to have been caused by
The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health agency to China two years ago to jointly look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek, who
Biologists at Michigan State University (MSU) have been studying damselflies — which resemble dragonflies and are abundant as both predator and prey in wetlands — in order to understand what happens throughout their lifecycle from nymph to winged insect, along with what
An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing drought in Eastern Africa has been made worse by human-induced climate change. World Weather Attribution seeks to quickly determine whether certain extreme weather events were influenced by climate change. The United Nation said