Electronic Skin
Engineers have packed medical electronics into a thin, stretchy temporary tattoo.
Science Update
Opinion Spam
A computer program can distinguish real hotel reviews from fake ones.
Organic Chicken Farms
Removing antibiotics from poultry farms could have immediate public health implications.
Darkest Planet
Scientists have identified the darkest known extrasolar planet.
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.