Your Phone Could Make You Into a Thunderstorm Predicting Machine

Some Android phones have barometers, and scientists want to use your observations to predict the weather
January 08, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Get Ready for the Best Meteor Showers of 2013

The year's first shower, the Quadrantid shower, is already behind us, and star gazers will have to wait until April (generally considered to be the start of meteor shower season) for the next big show
January 08, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

One Family Lived on Mars Time for a Month

While a Martian day is only 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, the differences quickly add up
January 07, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

There Is a Sculpture on the Moon Commemorating Fallen Astronauts

The crew of Apollo 15 placed a small aluminum sculpture on the moon to memorialize those astronauts had died
January 07, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Why Do Flowers Smell Good?

Humans have loved flowers for millennia, for both their looks and their scents
January 07, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Physicists Find That “Absolute Zero” May Not Be Quite So Absolute

Using lasers and magnets, a group of physicists pushed potassium atoms to a state colder than absolute zero
January 04, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Two Americans Charged in Narwhal-Tusk Smuggling Ring Bust

For the past decade, these two men have allegedly been smuggling narwhal tusks
January 04, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Here’s How to Get Attention for Your Research About Hookworms

This research may have a silly title, but it does answer an important question of global significance
January 04, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Old Christmas Trees Can Be Used to Clean Medical Equipment

Someday those pesky fallen needles may help save lives—or at least sterilize needles for annual flu shots
January 04, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Mild Obesity May Not Be So Bad

A recent study finds that overweight or slightly obese people live longer than normal-weight people, but critics call foul on some of these conclusions
January 04, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

This Is What a Watery Mars May Have Looked Like

Mars once had a vast ocean. What would that have looked like?
January 03, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

A 2.1 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Reveals Water on Mars

Chemical analysis shows that the meteorite, discovered in Morocco, contains ten times as much water as any Martian rock previously studied
January 03, 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

Graffiti Meets Chemistry, Loses

How do you actually get rid of graffiti? Chemistry, of course
January 03, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

NASA Wants to Drag an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon

If going to an asteroid is hard, maybe bringing an asteroid to us is easier?
January 03, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Hungover? There’s a Cure for That No Matter Where You Live

There are some things that are universal—trade, money, shelter, hangovers
January 03, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Lichens Do Not Age

One Harvard scientist hopes to find clues to immortality by studying lichens, the frilly, crusty green growths that appear on rock walls, tombstones and old trees
January 02, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Arctic Offshore Drilling Still Going Poorly As Shell’s Rig Runs Aground

The recent mishap is part of a string of troubles that Shell has encountered in its efforts to drill in the frigid Gulf
January 02, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Bringing Extinct Birds Back to Life, One Cartoon at a Time

In his new book, Extinct Boids, artist Ralph Steadman introduces readers to a flock of birds that no longer live in the wild
January 02, 2013 | By Megan Gambino

The Science of Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

Want to bolster your chances of actually staying true to your 2013 New Year's resolution, whatever it may be?
January 01, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

How Will the Wetlands Respond to Climate Change?

Smithsonian scientists have taken to the Chesapeake Bay to investigate how marshlands react to the shifting environment
January 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

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