A better way of keeping mosquitoes at bay is under development

A nifty piece of chemistry may have found a safe, effective, long-lasting protection

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How to measure how stress affects athletes’ performance

Pick a sport where they don’t move much, and study skin flushing

5d

I spy, with my little Wi-Fi

A router’s emissions can paint a picture of activity in a room

5d

Hormone tests for women’s fertility seem not to work

They estimate egg number, but not egg quality

5d

Neurons are not the only brain cells that think

Astrocytes, for instance, may play a role in depression and anxiety

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A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire

The result might be better AI

2w

Ideas for finding ET are getting more inventive

They can’t hide out there for ever

2w

Which firm will win the new Moon race?

Three rival missions raise tricky questions about who owns lunar resources

2w

Wasp larvae that eat aphids alive may save apple crops

Insecticides are more effective. But you lose your organic certification

3w

Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world

The concrete used was self-healing and anachronistically green

3w