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Triclosan, a Chemical Formerly Used in Antibacterial Soaps, Was Found to Impair Muscle Function
In a study, the chemical inhibited muscle activity in individual human heart cells, mice and minnows
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Tooth Chemistry Confirms Early Homo Loved Meat
Two million years ago hominids evolved more specialized diets with early Homo preferring meat and Paranthropus choosing plants
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Scientists Create Worm-like Robot That Can Inch Along the Ground
The Meshworm uses artificial muscles and peristalsis to creep quietly along the ground
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Dinosaurs Better Off Lost
Even in film, searching for Africa’s mythical dinosaurs is a mistake
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Smartphone as Doctor
Some think that little computer you carry around with you is about to bring a sea change in the doctor-patient relationship. Is data power?
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How Do You Tell Time on Mars? There’s an App for That
NASA has produced an app that helps scientists and amateurs alike keep track of time on the Red Planet
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New Wrinkle in Tarbosaurus Kerfuffle
The man who prepared an illicit tyrannosaur specimen claims that the dinosaur is rightly his
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Multiple Species of Early Homo Lived in Africa
New fossils unearthed in Kenya confirm that at least two species of Homo co-existed in Africa two million years ago
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African Grey Parrots Have the Reasoning Skills of 3-Year-Olds
A new experiment showed that the birds are capable of abstract logical reasoning, a trait previously shown only by primates
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Artists Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life
A forthcoming book showcases the best of modern dinosaur art
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See a Google-Earth-Like View of an Embryo, Down to an Individual Cell
A new technology combines thousands of individual images to create a zoom-able picture of living tissue, down to the cellular level
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Should We Go Back to Jurassic Park?
Jurassic Park 4 is coming soon, but should we really go back to those dinosaur-infested islands?
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‘Fracking’ for Natural Gas Is Linked With Earthquakes
A new study finds a correlation between the underground injection of waste fluids from fracking and dozens of small earthquakes
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Cars With Benefits
Soon new cars will have Internet access so carmakers are developing ways to reduce distractions. Like turning on the radio with the wink of an eye
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An Australian Jurassic Park?
Rumors are circling that an Australian billionaire wants to create a Jurassic Park. Could it actually work?
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Becoming Human: The Evolution of Walking Upright
Walking on two legs distinguished the first hominids from other apes, but scientists still aren’t sure why our ancestors became bipedal
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How Olympians Could Beat the Competition by Tweaking Their Genes
The next horizon in getting that extra athletic advantage may not be steroids, but gene therapy
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VIDEO: This Deep-Sea Squid Breaks Off Its Own Arms to Confuse Predators
A bioluminescent squid species that lives off the coast of California was caught on camera ditching its arms
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Dinosaur Turnover
Canada’s Dinosaur Park Formation is an exceptionally rich fossil boneyard, but what drove the evolution of the different dinosaurs found there?
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Scenes From a Changing Planet
Landsat satellites have been taking photos of Earth for a long time, but only now can you watch zoomable, time-lapse images of the planet’s transformation.
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