Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine

These delicate and stunning creatures are offering Smithsonian scientists a warning sign for the world's waters turning more acidic
May 14, 2013 | By Hannah Waters

Watch Out: This Year’s Fire Season Will Be Another Bad One for the West

A warm, dry winter has set the stage for another bad year of forest fires in the western U.S.
May 14, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Mount Everest Is Not Immune to Climate Change

Over the past 50 years, the snow line has receded nearly 600 feet up the mountain and glaciers in the region have shrunk by 13 percent
May 14, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Police Could Soon Get Their Hands on the U.S. Military’s ‘Pain Ray’

This high frequency microwave weapon makes you feel like your skin is burning, but leaves no scars
May 14, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Jury-Rigged iPhone Microscope Can See Parasitic Worms Just Fine

The new contraption detected giant roundworm eggs 81 percent of the time and roundworm eggs 54 percent of the time in village samples in Tanzania
May 14, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Why Your Lucky Underwear And Pre-Game Routine Might Actually Work

One in three students in the UK wears lucky underwear. And while you might laugh their habits off, there's a reason that those rituals might actually work
May 14, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Mayan Pyramid Destroyed to Get Rocks for Road Project

The construction company building the road appears to have extracted crushed rocks from the pyramid to use as road fill
May 14, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy Choice Increasingly Common, Still Medically Murky

Angelina Jolie's choice to remove both her breasts is part of a larger trend - but doctors aren't sure why it's more popular now than ever, or whether it should be
May 14, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Solving an Alligator Mystery May Help Humans Regrow Lost Teeth

A gator can replace all of its teeth up to 50 times--learning what triggers these new teeth to grow may someday keep us from needing dentures
May 13, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Why Do We Laugh?

What is the evolutionary purpose of laughter? Are we the only species that laughs?
May 13, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

This Carnivorous Plant Throws Out Its Junk DNA

Complex life is possible without excessive amounts of non-coding DNA
May 13, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Scientists Map Britain’s Most Famous Underwater City

Researchers have created a 3D visualization of Dunwich using acoustic imaging
May 13, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Easy-Peasy Test Finds Serious Fetal Health Issues Earlier

Scientists can detect signs of Down Syndrome, brain damage and a preterm delivery using this new urine test
May 13, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

This 3-D Printed Robot Also Can Assemble Itself

Robots get smaller, smarter, faster and easier to assemble every day. In fact, they're so easy to make that this robot can actually assemble itself
May 13, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

This App Uses Audio to Guide Blind Photographers

While blind people can't enjoy photographs the same way sighted people do, that doesn't mean they don't want to take them
May 10, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

3-D Printed Gun Plans Are Going to Be on the Internet, Whatever the State Department Says

After the State Department asked Defense Distributed to take down their 3-D gun plans, The Pirate Bay opened its doors, offering to host the plans on its site for anyone who wants them
May 10, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars

Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? Turns out there's a reason for that that has to do with the chemistry of dying stars
May 10, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Macoto Murayama’s Intricate Blueprints of Flowers

The Japanese artist depicts blossoms from various plant species in fastidious detail
May 10, 2013 | By Megan Gambino

There Are Just Three Males of This Endangered Fish Left, And the London Zoo Is on a Global Hunt to Find a Lady

There are just three fish of this species left in the world, and they're all males.
May 10, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

The World According to Twitter, in Maps

A new geographic analysis of millions of tweets provides a remarkably broad view of humanity, by language, location and other factors
May 10, 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

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