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Pain and the Brain
Our nervous system can hold on to pain memories for a long time. But scientists may have found a way to make pain go away for good
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Fish “Scary Stuff” Alarm Call Deciphered
A newly identified brain circuit could be responsible for driving innate fear responses in many species
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How to Make Sense of Dinosaur Variation
Paleontologist Jordan Mallon describes how he figured out how many Anchiceratops species actually existed
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Designing the Perfect Fruit
How a tiny, seedless fruit becomes the iPhone of the produce aisle
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1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse
Kids predict the darndest things
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Halfway to the Bottom of the Earth: The Catlins
To see this place on a globe, home of the world’s southernmost tapas reastaurant, one must lift it upward to expose the underbelly of the planet
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England’s Jurassic Tyrant
Meet the mysterious small predators that set the stage for the later rise of more imposing tyrants
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Oldest American Rock Art Found in Brazil
The petroglyph, with a head, hands and “oversized phallus” is around 10,000 years old
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Shovels Break Ground for a New Smithsonian Museum
President Barack Obama presided over the start of a new museum devoted to African American history and culture
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2012 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts: A Cheat Sheet
As always, Academy voters have their tendencies, but there’s one short this year that stands out among the rest
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Fruits and Vegetables Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
Microscopy artist Robert Rock Belliveau says, “I couldn’t believe the things I found on the things we eat every day”
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Dinosaur Sighting: Polka-Dot Triceratops
This week we meet a dinosaur that looks as if a clown exploded all over it
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A Piece of Email History Comes to the American History Museum
A groundbreaking early email program, written by a high school student in 1979, helps tell the story of this crucial technology’s history
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Know Your Enemy’s Weaknesses – Start with the Kelley Blue Book
Sun Tzu probably got a great deal on a used horse
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Do Wildlife Corridors Really Work?
A new crowd-sourced project aims to identify and evaluate pathways that connect bits of wildlife habitat
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Is the U.S. Out of Love with Cutting-Edge Transit?
It feels like it. But there is plenty of innovative thinking shaping the future of public transportation. You just need to look elsewhere to find it
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A Spectacle of Horror – The Burning of the General Slocum
The deadliest disaster in New York before 9/11 killed many women and children and ultimately erased a German community from the map of Manhattan
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Is New Zealand Too Dangerous for Cycling?
A Christchurch gentleman claimed to have knocked two cyclists off the road with his black H-2 Hummer and threatened to “nail” more
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One Library for the Entire World
In the years preceding the Internet, futurist books hinted at the massive information infrastructure that was to come
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Alan Turing’s Prediction About Patterns in Nature Proven True
With nothing but numbers, logic and some basic know-how, the inventor of the Turing Test explained how to make a stripe
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