Nano Roundup
Nanotechnology involves building extremely small structures--something nature has been doing for billions of years. Here we learn about scientists who are enlisting viruses to build tiny batteries.
Fish Model Roundup
Nature has given some animals some pretty cool tricks, like the ability to regrow limbs and go without oxygen for months. Scientists think understanding those abilities might lead to medical advances for people.
Salamander Streams
When it comes to nature, little things can make a big difference. We have one example from the streams of the Ozark Plateau.
Stereo Smell
Although the latest home entertainment centers have amazing stereo systems, our own body's built-in hearing and vision are pretty remarkable as well. Now, researchers have found that stereo can even extend to smell.
Dirty Bacteria
More and more disease-causing germs are becoming resistant to antibiotics. To learn more about the problem, some scientists may literally have to do some digging.
Spiteless Chimps
From soap operas to political campaigns, spite runs rampant in the human world. But do higher animals share our spiteful tendencies?
Cancer-Sniffing Dogs
Dogs are routinely used to sniff out everything from illegal drugs to explosives. But new research shows that they can also smell cancer.
Podcast
A better way to browse music, sexual orientation in the brain, a great locust migration, the tectonic future of California, and why the desert is an Amazon.
Locust Swarm
A few million years ago, a swarm of locusts made an incredible journey.
Podcast
Spiders that eat their mates, why cloned animals get sick, some lesser known dangers of inbreeding, the origins of Jupiter's moons, and fish in see-through eggs.
Vaccine Roundup
In an unusual twist, a bioengineered tobacco plant could save lives in the case of a bioterrorist attack.
Podcast
Pushing the boundaries of maps, how the space station makes oxygen, body image in the brain, how noise affects the heart, and why the narwhal has a tusk.
Podcast
A working air guitar, the smallest living thing, tips on raising pandas, exercising the brain, and our relationship to the fruitfly
Sensory Roundup
You may be surprised to learn what colorblind people can see.
Marine Bacteria
To live on the ocean floor, some bacteria have developed unique chemical properties--some of which may help us fight cancer.
Garden Cancer Drug
A powerful potential leukemia treatment may be growing in your own backyard.
Podcast
Anger can be healthy, birds on parenting, why teenagers are out of control, getting cold can give you a cold, and noisy hospitals are bad for your health.
Urban Myth Roundup
Scientists have long derided the notion that getting cold could give you a cold. But a new study seems to prove them wrong.
Fungus Roundup
Fungus seems to have something of a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality--sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Flu Mutations
A new study explains why the flu vaccine can sometimes become less effective as the season wears on.
Cancer Roundup
Science reporter Bob Hirshon reports on two new research efforts that are trying to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
Smart Bug Roundup
An Amazonian ant's strange behavior has made people think that demons are at work. Now scientists have discovered what's really going on.
Spitting Flies
Flies seem to like to eat the same things we do, but they have a very different method.
Canary Database
A new Web site is trying to save lives by bridging the gap between physicians and veterinarians.