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Analysis of the remains of 26 dogs found near Barcelona suggest the dogs had a close relationship with ancient humans → Read More
Three graduate students set out to show that the scientific and artistic processes are more similar than many imagine → Read More
Up to 1,000 tourists visit the colorful ridge every day. But this influx of people is eroding the nature → Read More
Photons typically don't interact, but physicists bound three together in the lab → Read More
New way to catalogue the brain's cellular diversity may aid autism researchers → Read More
New way to catalogue the brain's cellular diversity may aid autism researchers → Read More
Award-winning photographer Mandy Barker explores the beauty and tragedy of marine plankton and plastic waste → Read More
Contributions range from the juvenile to bizarre to strangely beautiful → Read More
Eight sumptuous books from the past year that meet at the intersection of science and art → Read More
Artist Wolfgang Buttress collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to create a giant, metallic hive → Read More
Wire together some resistors, current regulators, and a 9-volt battery, then connect the slapdash device to your head with saline-soaked sponges that serve as electrodes and get ready. A mild current will flow across your skull. According to some research and anecdotes, this exercise could help you enter a flow-state that enhances meditation or zap your neurons enough to master a video game or… → Read More
The answer depends on how the question is approached → Read More
A Coast Guard patrol spotted the wrecks in shallow waters that are only clear after the lake's ice melts and before summer sediment swirls and algae blooms → Read More
The sequencing of genomes of 48 bird species explains the evolutionary roots of vocalization and could offer insight into human speech disorders → Read More
Early Thursday morning, NASA is launching a spacecraft able to carry humans into deep space. There will be no humans on board this test flight of the Orion spacecraft, but from the blas... → Read More
The Rosetta spacecraft is currently circling a comet, looking for a good spot to make the first soft landing on a comet. For those of you waiting with bated breath for the scheduled touchdown on... → Read More
Wild animals get seriously nervous when people get close. This is a problem for researchers, who need to observe the fascinating beasties. So we’ve called in the robots to help. ... → Read More
The dark of the Amazon rainforest’s night is brimming with sounds—the stridulations of insects, the calls of nocturnal critters, and the skittering tap of… giant spiders ... → Read More
Dolphins, it seems, can perceive the Earth’s magnetic fields. Some researchers wondered if these intelligent cetaceans had a magnetic sense because they’ve found magnetite (magne... → Read More
A Swedish man whose arm was amputated 10 years ago now has a new artificial one directly connected to the bone, muscles, and nerves of his body. The truck driver is the first person in the world... → Read More