Fungus lures male flies and forces them to mate with dead females
It triggers the production of pheromones in the body of a dead fly to attract the attention of a partner. Specialists from the University of Copenhagen and the Swedish University…
Scientists from the USA have learned to accelerate the boiling of water
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a heating element surface structure that allows faster and easier boiling of water. Professor Evelyn Wong and her co-authors write…
Just four drinks a week lowers cognition
The Oxford University team’s study builds on earlier work that has linked high brain iron levels to neurodegenerative diseases. Frequent drinkers have been shown to be more likely to have…
Y-chromosome loss causes heart disease in male mice
Scientists removed the Y-chromosome from the hematopoietic cells of male mice, as a result of which dangerous fibrotic changes in the heart muscle tissue developed in rodents, which provoked a…