What Genomic Research Can Tell Us About the Earth's Biodiversity

Smithsonian scientists are gathering wildlife tissue samples from around the world to build the largest museum-based repository of such specimens
June 2013 | By Joseph Stromberg

The Life-Saving App That Sends Pictures of Your Heartbeat to Doctors

A new app outpaces email when sending crucial medical data from the ambulance to the hospital
May 17, 2013 | By Marina Koren

Should Students Who Are Bad at Math Receive Therapeutic Electro-Shock Treatments?

Students who had their brains zapped solved math questions 27 percent faster than those who did not
May 17, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Endangered Ocean Creatures Beyond the Cute and Cuddly

Marine species threatened with extinction aren't just whales, seals and turtles--they include fish, corals, mollusks, birds, and a lone seagrass
May 17, 2013 | By Emily Frost

A Bust of Richard III, 3D-Printed From a Scan of His Recently Exhumed Skull

A forensic art team reconstructed Richard III's face
May 17, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Ali, Marilyn, Jackie and Mr. TIME: The cover artist who helped define a magazine

Originally from Russia, Boris Chaliapan's more than 400 covers for the weekly captured the news of the day
May 17, 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

Invasive Crazy Ants Are Eating Up Invasive Fire Ants in the South

How ecosystems will function if fire ants suddenly disappear and are replaced by crazy ants remains an open but worrying question
May 17, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuckoo Clock

From Orson Welles to Twitter, a look into the classic time-telling relic from your grandparents' attic
May 17, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

Landscape Designer Margie Ruddick Brings a New Meaning to Green Design

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award winner Margie Ruddick talks about blending ecology and architecture in the first-ever permanent living indoor installation
May 17, 2013 | By Paul Bisceglio

Can Brain Scans Really Tell Us What Makes Something Beautiful?

Some scientists think we'll be able to define great art by analyzing our brains when we see see or hear it. Critics say don't hold your breath
May 17, 2013 | By Randy Rieland

Two-Thirds of the World Still Hates Lefties

For 2/3 of the world's population, being born left handed is still met with distrust and stigma
May 17, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Solving Climbing’s Diversity Problem

Seventy-eight percent of the Americans who took part in activities outdoors last year were white
May 17, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Subway Is Just as Bad For You as McDonald’s

This ad for Subway sandwiches reminds you that, unlike their fast food competitors that sell burgers and fries and shakes, Subway is healthy. That seems obvious, since they’re selling sandwiches with lettuce on them while other places sell fattening burgers. But a new study suggests that in fact eating at Subway might be less healthy [...]
May 16, 2013 | By Rose Eveleth

Sheila E. On Her Glamorous Life, Upcoming Album and Future Collaborations

The diva on the drums, Sheila E. says she has no plans to slow down as she works on a solo album and autobiography
May 16, 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

Doctors Used to Use Live African Frogs As Pregnancy Tests

Now, those former test subjects may be spreading the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus around the world
May 16, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

A Friendly Reminder From Pretty Much Every Climate Scientist in the World: Climate Change Is Real

Yes, climate change is real. Yes, we are causing it.
May 16, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Mount Everest Climbers’ Waste Could Power Local Villages

If successful, the project will be the world's highest elevation biogas reactor and could be introduced to other high altitude areas around the world
May 16, 2013 | By Rachel Nuwer

Water Cut Off From the World for Billions of Years Is Bubbling From the Bottom of a Mine

1.5 miles down at the base of a Canadian mine life may have thrived
May 16, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

Where’d You Get Those Creepers?

The platform-soled, punk-style shoes have celebrated the 'Teddy Boy' spirit since the late 1940s
May 16, 2013 | By Emily Spivack

So Long, Kepler: NASA’s Crack Exoplanet-Hunter Falls to Mechanical Failure

Kepler has changed our place in the universe, but now the four-year old satellite is down with a broken wheel
May 16, 2013 | By Colin Schultz

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