Stop Smoking Texts
Encouraging text messages help smokers kick the habit.
Loudest Animal
The mating calls of an insect called the water boatman are much louder than expected given the bug’s …
Podcast for 22 July 2011
THE BRAIN & SOCIETY: How the brain experiences beauty, what soccer reveals about the mind, and …
Medical Roundup
New research lends clues to why a bad sunburn hurts so much.
Comfort Food Hormone
A hormone called ghrelin is a key part of how stress triggers mice to seek out fatty food.
Bat Navigation
Bats have tiny hairs on their wings that help them maneuver in complete darkness.
Podcast for 15 July 2011
THE SCIENCE OF FACES: when pigeons look at us, and the genes behind how we look at faces. Also: what …
Appliance Roundup
Some of the world’s most forbidding environments occur right in our own homes, but microorganisms …