Free-Market Fungi
Symbiotic plants and fungi reward generous trade partners and punish stingy ones.
Shrinking Brains
Our brains shrink by up to 15% over our lifetimes, but those of chimpanzees do not.
Pregnant Pleisiosaur
A pregnant reptilian fossil clears up a long-standing paleontology mystery.
Sizing Up Vowels
New research suggests that different vowel sounds cue babies in to the size of objects.
Electric Dolphins
One dolphin species hunts by detecting the electricity given off by its prey.
Aging Brains
Age-related working memory loss may be at least partly reversible.
Safe Water Software
New software can quickly flag tainted water supplies.
Blood Sucker Roundup
Diseases spread by mosquitoes plague millions of people. But what if people could make mosquitoes sick instead?
Dolphin Healing
Dolphins heal remarkably well after massive shark bites, and scientists want to know how they do it.
Nuclear Reactor Robots
Robots offer a safer way to inspect nuclear reactors for defects.
Black Hole Water
Water was abundant in the universe just 1.6 billion years after the Big Bang - in one of the most inhospitable places imaginable.
Problem-Solving Lizards
Some lizards can solve problems as well as birds and mammals.
Climate Roundup
Climate scientists who want to know how airplanes might affect the climate are gaining new insights by looking nearly seventy years into the past.
Rocking Sleep
Rocking helps adults fall asleep faster and enter deeper sleep.
Plant Sonar
A Cuban plant has acoustically-enhanced leaves that help pollinating bats find it in the dark.
Backyard Roundup
Opossums and snakes are locked in a battle of evolutionary proportions.
Dinosaur Bones
Holes in fossil bones suggest that dinosaurs were warm-blooded.
Soccer Goalies
Soccer goalies tend to dive toward the right when their team is behind.
Beauty & Brains
One area of the brain becomes active when we experience beauty.
Ultrasound Safety
A listener asks: Can medical ultrasound damage your ears?
Tiny Chip Roundup
The tiniest camera in the world can record the firing of single neurons.