What if all our antibiotics stopped working?
Bacteria are waging war on our drugs, and defeat is not an option Until the 1940s, one in 20 children died before their first birthday. Tuberculosis and pneumonia had no cure, and a simple...
Bacteria are waging war on our drugs, and defeat is not an option Until the 1940s, one in 20 children died before their first birthday. Tuberculosis and pneumonia had no cure, and a simple...
Scientists have long known that microglia are responsible for helping synapses grow and rearrange as part of a brains normal development, but Laetitia Weinhard, from the Gross group at EMBL Rome has been the first...
The most well-known biological study on self-control is the infamous “marshmallow test”, where children at Standford University in the 1960s were given the choice of a single marshmallow or the option to wait to...
A new wasp species discovered in Costa Rica has been found to cut its host open from the insides. The Dendrocerus scutellaris is as small as a sesame seed, but don’t let its size...
What do paws, feet and claws all have in common? They are all perfectly adapted, essential appendages that animals rely on to eat and interact.
How It Works explores the causes of infantile amnesia and why we can’t remember our early years.
Find out how asthma affects the body, and how an inhaler can help