Researchers at the University of Bristol have found out that after humans, male bottlenose dolphins form the largest multi-level alliance network. The study also reveals that cooperative relationships between groups helps males to spend more time with females, thus increasing reproductive success.

EKF Diagnostics has introduced a new sample collection kit which helps to conveniently and safely collect, transport and handle pathogenic samples, including Covid-19 and influenza.

How do polymers behave with temperature changes that occur in their life cycle? This is a decisive factor for product development. For this reason, there are several standards for weathering tests. This article provides an overview of why some of these tests are unsuitable.

With the help of mirrors, placed only a few hundred nanometers apart, a research team has managed to use light more efficiently. The finding could eventually be useful for controlling solar energy conversion during photosynthesis, or other reactions driven by light. For example, one application could be converting carbon dioxide into fuel.

How we speak matters to animals. Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives, as well as from human speech, according to new research in behavioral biology at the University of Copenhagen.

Researchers at the Mc Gill University have revealed in a study that hotspots for at-risk species in Canada often overlap for different species and that if such areas are protected it could protect a wide range of species at risk of extinction.

With the acquisition of the contract manufacturing company ADL Biopharma, Wacker will strengthen its biotechnology business. The purchase price for the acquisition of ADL Biopharma exceeds 100 million euros.

With some careful twisting and stacking, MIT physicists have revealed a new and exotic property in “magic-angle” graphene: superconductivity that can be turned on and off with an electric pulse, much like a light switch. The discovery could lead to ultrafast, energy-efficient superconducting transistors for neuromorphic devices — electronics designed to operate in a way similar to the rapid on/off firing of neurons in the human brain.

In the last 20 years, a combination of different factors, such as disease, has seen production of akoya pearl drop from around 70,000 kg/year to just 20,000 kg/year. To find out more about their underlying genetics and with the hopes of discovering resilient strains, researchers have constructed a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome of a pearl oyster.

In past decades, the safety of many probiotics available to consumers was anchored in knowledge of their long history of safe consumption in humans. However, the range of probiotics is expanding to include non-traditional probiotic strains, which may bring health benefits but are not typically present in food sources and do not have a history of safe use.