Urban Greening
Strategically placed grass, ivy, and other greenery can significantly improve air quality in urban centers.
Dad’s Diversity
Sequencing the DNA of individual sperm helps explain why siblings are often so different.
Flushing Out HIV
Researchers are developing a technique that could potentially flush out reservoirs of latent HIV.
Eating Roundup
Cutting up a snack into smaller parts may help people eat less at mealtimes.
Robotic Gait
Engineers have developed a two-legged robot with a more lifelike walking gait.
Social Poker
Neuroscientists used poker games and MRI scans to separate social from purely strategic decision making.
Martian Water
An analysis of meteorites suggests that the Martian interior contains much more water than previously suspected.
Parroting Genes
Birds and people have similar genes for learning and producing vocalizations.
Toxic Water Roundup
Toxins in water pipes likely caused color blindness in some Massachusetts towns.
Smart Headlights
“Smart” headlights improve visibility by illuminating the road ahead, but not raindrops or snowflakes.
Symptomless Colds
You can spread the common cold even if you feel no symptoms.
Parasites & Suicide Attempts
Researchers find a link between a common parasite and suicide attempts in humans.
The Oldest Rodent
Naked mole rats are the ugly ducklings of medical research. Now a new study suggests that they have an anti-aging potion in their bag of survival …
Food Roundup
Eating a bit of dessert for breakfast helped obese people lose weight and keep it off.
Foxes & Lyme Disease
Lyme disease correlates with the waning fox population, not an increase in deer.
Rage Blocker
Blocking a brain receptor in mice eliminates pathological aggression.
IV Oxygen
When people stop breathing, they need oxygen fast. New technology could make it possible to get it to them - by bypassing the lungs.
Dogs vs. Asthma
Having a dog in the house may help protect babies from developing respiratory synctial virus (RSV) and asthma.
Eye Roundup
New research into the science of the eye reveals reasons our pupils dilate, and why we look up when we try to remember things.
Dairy Detectives
Traces of milk fat in pottery confirm that prehistoric North Africans practiced dairy farming.
Touchy-Feely Robot
A touch-sensitive robotic finger outperforms humans on some tasks.
Tasteless Tomatoes
Scientists discover the biochemistry behind tasteless supermarket tomatoes.
Vampire Spiders & Frankensquitoes
Scientists mix and match mosquito body parts to discover which traits predatory spiders like most.
Body Ecosystem Roundup
You’d be amazed at the sheer number of microbes that live inside us, and affect our health.