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There Is No Such Thing As Reptiles Any More – Here's Why

There Is No Such Thing As Reptiles Any More – Here's Why

Oct 14 2014 | comment(s)


No, it's nothing to do with a reptilian existential crisis – just a name game. Credit: melanie cook/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

By Dustin Welbourne

You have likely been to a zoo at some point and visited their reptile house.

A building where the climate control dial is stuck on the “wet sauna” setting, and filled with maniacal children competing to be the first to press their ice cream covered face and hands on every available piece of clean glass.

Designer Viruses Could Be The New Antibiotics

Designer Viruses Could Be The New Antibiotics

Oct 14 2014 | comment(s)


Bacteria under attack by a flock of bacteriophages. Credit: Graham Beards/Wikimedia Commons

By Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

Do We Want An Augmented Reality Or A Transformed Reality?

Do We Want An Augmented Reality Or A Transformed Reality?

Oct 13 2014 | comment(s)


We are only beginning to see what augmented reality can do. Credit: Flickr/Karlis Dambra, CC BY

By Nick Kelly, University of Southern Queensland

‘Inner GPS’ Of Bird Brains May Be Better Than That Of Humans

‘Inner GPS’ Of Bird Brains May Be Better Than That Of Humans

Oct 13 2014 | comment(s)


Credit: Wing-Chi Poon, CC BY-SA

By Sana Suri, University of Oxford

The 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to three neuroscientists for their pioneering work on the brain’s “inner GPS system”. Over the course of four decades, they revealed that a small part in the brain called the hippocampus stores a map of animals' surroundings and helps them navigate.

Are Antimicrobial Condoms The New Frontier Against STDs? Not Quite

Are Antimicrobial Condoms The New Frontier Against STDs? Not Quite

Oct 12 2014 | comment(s)


Very little has been published on VivaGel in peer-reviewed literature. Credit: Morgan/Flickr, CC BY

By Bridget Haire

Nemo And Chips? Tropical Fish Might Flee Warming Waters, Head To The Poles

Nemo And Chips? Tropical Fish Might Flee Warming Waters, Head To The Poles

Oct 12 2014 | comment(s)


Credit: Ed Bierman, CC BY

By Clive Trueman, University of Southampton

Fish are acutely aware of sea temperature; it’s one of the key reasons particular species of fish live where they do.

As the oceans warm however, many tropical species are moving towards cooler climes. So might the traditional cod and chips one day be replaced by Nemo and chips?