On Feb. 11, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in a press conference that they have observed gravitational waves. A corresponding peer-reviewed journal article was published in the American Physical Society...

Throughout the animal kingdom, non-heterosexual sex is a common thing. Whether in the air, on land, or in the sea, animals don’t seem to have any problem with getting it on with members of...

Anxiety can produce some unusual behaviours. Two recently published studies looked into why our brains make us do particular things when we are anxious. One group found that the anxious brain tends to make...

LiFi is a new high-speed wireless technology that conveys data in the same way WiFi does – but with light. Created by University of Edinburgh professor Harald Haas in 2011, LiFi is expected to...

Jillian Detwiler is an assistant professor in the department of biology at the University of Manitoba. As an evolutionary ecologist, Detwiler researches host-parasite interactions. “My research focuses on the impacts of host ecology on parasite...

A major cause of male infertility is the production of sperm that are unable to complete the long, arduous journey to the egg. They’re not strong swimmers. Enter the spermbot,an invention of German scientists from...

Dogs can incur the wrath of their owners from time to time – they can do stupid things. But they are also likely to be the recipient of more affection than any other being...