New Research
Ancient Tooth Plaque Shows Our Ancestors Used to Feast on Weeds
Purple nutsedge is a pest today, but thousands of years ago it was probably valued for its cavity-preventing properties
Borneo Has Lost 30 Percent of Its Forest in the Past 40 Years
Borneo's tropical forests have fallen at twice the rate as the rest of the world's felled rainforests
This New Carbon Capture Project Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Fish Food
A Norwegian project hopes to reduce both pollution and lessen pressure on krill stocks
Baby Turtles Coordinate Hatching By Talking to One Another Through Their Egg Shells
A number of turtle species make sounds, but this is the first evidence that babies do so before they've even hatched
Why Freshwater Dolphins Are Some of the World’s Most Endangered Mammals
In Pakistan, dams and drainage has reduced the endangered Indus River dolphin’s range by 80 percent
The Ongoing Drought Will Cost California $2.2 Billion and 17,000 Jobs
California is facing its greatest water loss on record, and it's not likely to get better any time soon
We Choose Friends Who Are Genetically Similar to Us
On average, our friends are like the genetic equivalents of fourth cousins
No Matter How Much You Practice, If You Don’t Have Natural Talent You Still Might Never Be the Best, Some Experts Think
Yet other researchers think that different factors, such as the quality and timing of practice, matter most
Astronomers Are Doing Real Science With Space Photos They Found on Flickr
Want to help research? Grab a camera and point it to the heavens
There's No Laundry in Space, So NASA is Trying to Make Clothes That Don't Get Smelly
Astronauts got a shipment of fresh, hopefully odor-resistant gym clothes
We Know Physics is Largely White and Male, But Exactly How White and Male is Still Striking
Most current physics students will likely never have an African American physics teacher, says a new survey
Some Ancient Assyrians Ignored the Advent of Writing for Thousands of Years
It took thousands of years for Assyrians to finally give up primitive record-keeping methods
Human Skin Can Detect Odors, Some of Which May Help Trigger Healing
Olfactory cells occur all over the body, not just in the nose
A Deadly Fungus Is Wiping Out Frogs and Toads—But Some Can Develop Resistance
Scientists hope it might be possible to develop a vaccine to the fungus, based on the frog and toad's immunity
There’s a Very Good Reason Explosives Are Being Set Off on Mount St. Helens
The explosions will let geologists peek inside the volcano's magma chamber
Forget the Fastest Route. Why Not Use Digital Maps to Plan the Most Beautiful Instead?
Yahoo is developing an algorithm that will allow you to choose the scenic route
Watch the Unnerving Gait of This 410 Million-Year-Old Arachnid
Working from well-preserved fossils, paleontologists reproduced the trigonotarbids' walk
Fat Corals Fare Best As Climate Changes
Corals with significant energy reserves that welcome all types of symbiotic algae species won’t easily die if hit with multiple bleaching events
You May Have Been Eating Mushrooms That Were Unknown to Science
Scientists just discovered three new species of mushroom… in a London shop
Gliese 581g, the First Exoplanet Found That May Have Been Able to Host Life, Doesn’t Actually Exist
So long Gliese 581g, the potentially habitable exoplanet that never was
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