Science

Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in American households, and a study wanted to see if these social birds would enjoy video calling each other just like humans. The Birds of a Feather study recruited more than a dozen parrot owners and their birds, to see if parrot loneliness,…

New shape-shifting antibiotics could fight deadly medically-resistant bacterial infections responsible for more than 1.2 million deaths worldwide every year, according to a new study. The antibiotic can shape-shift by rearranging its atoms, using new “click” chemistry, a discovery that won the 2022 Nobel Prize. The drug’s creator, Professor John Moses at…

So a porcupine, a hyena, and a warthog walk into a burrow… No, it’s not the setup to a bad joke, but the abstract in a scientific paper published in the African Journal of Ecology which found they all were able to co-habit the burrow. Despite the cramped confines of the…

Medication delivered by a novel gel cured 100% of mice with an aggressive brain cancer, a striking result that offers new hope for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most common brain tumors in humans. “We think this hydrogel will be the future,” said study leader Professor Honggang…

Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars – the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe – by discovering that they are ignited by galaxies colliding. First discovered 60 years ago, quasars can shine as brightly as a trillion stars packed into a volume the size of our…

A microbe discovered living on the slopes of an Italian volcano can eat and store CO2 in its body faster than any other species yet known. Scientists hope to be able to harness the creature’s powers to create carbon-capture ponds to aid in pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere. While reducing…