N's grandfather was twenty when he moved to New York in the early 1900s. There he worked on the railways, which brought him into contact with travelers speaking many languages.
The blue blood of horseshoe crabs clots immediately in reaction to negative bacteria, which makes it a useful alarm system when testing drugs, products and devices that come into contact with human blood.
I dip two fingers in the jar and gently spread the balm over my calf. The effect is almost magical, erasing the pain on contact, leaving a pleasant cooling sensation behind.
Trapped inside her family's lakeside retreat, a young woman finds she is unable to contact the outside world as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house.
Parrots are famed for their ability to mimic sounds and now researchers have used 'virtual mates' to discover if female parrots judge male contact calls when deciding on a mate.
Scientists from Princeton University have proposed that those cavernous yawns we all experience cause the sinuses to expand and contact like a bellows, acting to cool the brain.