Healthy Handshakes
A new study investigates whether shaking hands spreads germs.
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SETI Star Survey
Astronomers are listening for radio signals from star systems that are most likely to harbor life.
Movie Star Marriages
Even movie stars tend to choose spouses with similar education levels.
Brainless Navigation
Although they lack real brains, box jellyfish can follow landmarks above the water's surface.
Gender-Biased Children’s Books
Children’s books are dominated by male characters.
Starless Starfish
A starfish without arms makes scientists rethink how they classify animals.
Erasing Memories
Scientists have extinguished, or at least greatly weakened, a long-term memory in a sea snail.
Tsunamis & Sealife
A listener asks: What happens to the seafloor and to sealife when tsunamis hit?
Breathing Video Games
Kids with cystic fibrosis are trying a video game-based breathing therapy.
3-D Space Map
Using light from quasars, scientists are mapping the distant universe.