Second-Generation Smoking
Smoking while pregnant may cause DNA damage not just to the developing baby, but to that baby's …
Eyes vs. Faces
Monsters from the role playing game “Dungeons & Dragons” help reveal what’s most important to …
Butterfly Migration Radar
Radar data, along with highly coordinated observations, has solved a disappearing-butterfly mystery.
Podcast for 9 November 2012
SURVIVAL - Why female Komodo dragons die young, a whale that sounded like a person, and algae that …
Evolution Roundup
Evidence suggests that an ancestor of modern humans both walked upright and climbed trees.
Dung Beetle Cooling
Dung beetles use balls of fecal matter not only for food and reproduction, but for cooling as well.
Forgetting Bad Memories
The brain has two very different mechanisms for erasing bad memories.
UV Disinfectant
Short-wave ultraviolet radiation can clear dangerous germs from hospital rooms.
Komodo Dragon Housework
Housework may be killing female Komodo dragons at an early age.
Electronic Senses Roundup
An electronic nose can sniff out sleep apnea.