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Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years

Thomas Parnell, the school's first physics professor, set up an experiment. It's still going
May 01, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

High Fructose Corn Syrup May Be Partly Responsible for Bees’ Collapsing Colonies

High fructose corn syrup, the sugary compound in soda, is also fed to bees
May 01, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

IBM Engineers Pushed Individual Atoms Around to Make This Amazing Stop-Motion Movie

IBM was the first to draw with atoms, and now they're making them dance
May 01, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving

There's controversy surrounding the oak's new home, but park or no park, the Ghirardi Oak is staying, and the transport seems to have been a success
May 01, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Physicists to Shoot Extremely Fast-Moving Electrons at Dinosaur Skin Fossil

The actual color of dinosaur skin is still very much up for debate
May 01, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Many Americans think U.S. teens perform even worse on standardized science tests than they actually do, according to a new national survey.

How Much Do Americans Know About Science?

An exclusive poll shows Americans crave stronger mathematics, science schooling for U.S. kids
May 2013 | By Terence Monmaney

The systematic study of cities dates back at least to the Greek historian Herodotus.

Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem

Experts in the emerging field of quantitative urbanism believe that many aspects of modern cities can be reduced to mathematical formulas
May 2013 | By Jerry Adler

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May 2013 | By Smithsonian magazine

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What is Causing Iran’s Spike in MS Cases?


Vitamin D deficiency from lack of sunlight could be an unexpected long-term consequence of the Iranian revolution

May 2013 | By Libby Copeland

Advances in genetic technology have opened a window into the populous and powerful world of microbial life in and around the human body.

Microbes: The Trillions of Creatures Governing Your Health


Scientists are just now beginning to recognize the importance of the vast community of microbes that dwells inside us

May 2013 | By Richard Conniff

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What Happened to the Wizard of Oz Costumes and More Great Questions From our Readers

Apollo 11 souvenirs, Walt Whitman’s politics, and dinosaur DNA were among the subjects you wanted to know more about
May 2013 | By Smithsonian magazine

Baby Sand Tiger Sharks Devour Their Siblings While Still in the Womb

This seemingly horrific reproduction strategy may be a way for females to better control which males sire her offspring
April 30, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Order Your Groceries Online

Ordering groceries online for delivery cuts carbon emissions by half when compared with traveling to the store by car
April 30, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Is a Raging Hurricane

At the heart of Saturn's hexagon, a giant hurricane
April 30, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Celebrating Nearly a Decade of Richard Branson Almost Sending Us to Space

In 2004, Richard Branson said we'd be in space by 2008. That didn't pan out
April 30, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

This New Robot Has a Sense of Touch

A robot with a sense of touch can better navigate our cluttered world
April 29, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

In 2010, Malaria Killed 660,000 People, And Now It’s Resistant to the Drugs We Use to Fight It

Scientists have discovered a drug-resistant strain of malaria, and it's spreading
April 29, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

The First LPs Weren’t for Music—They Were Audiobooks for the Blind

Record companies hadn't yet figured out how to make music sound good on LPs
April 29, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

How Can the U.S. Government Know If Syrian Combatants Were Affected by Sarin Gas?

Reports from the White House that sarin gas were used in Syria, but how could you test for it?
April 26, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

This 16-Year-Old Has a Bionic Hand Almost as Good as Luke Skywalker’s

While Patric Kane didn't have his hand sliced of by a lightsaber, he's got a bionic replacement that's one step closer to Skywalker's eerily lifelike robot paw
April 26, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth


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