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The world’s leading expert on bee behavior discovers the secrets of decision-making in a swarm
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The renowned author of A Natural History of the Senses visits Florida’s Morikami Japanese Gardens to examine the astonishing wealth of human perception
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Yes, scientists say, your airborne compounds send signals about your moods, your sexual orientation and even your genetic makeup
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New research into a long-puzzling feature of avian life shows there’s more to color than meets the eye
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Did the Titanic Sink Because of an Optical Illusion?
New research may have found the reason why the ship struck an iceberg: light refraction
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Did Triceratops Slouch or Stand Tall?
A new study investigates whether old “three-horned face” held its forelimbs straight down like other dinosaurs or waddled around with its elbows out
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault Turns Four
Four years ago this week, researchers opened the “Doomsday Vault” to store frozen seeds in case of disaster
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Orion: Dino Beatdown is another run-and-gun dinosaur shooter, with a little extra hardware to help gamers jump around the battlefield
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In Little Hippos, Males Beget Females
A new study in pygmy hippos shows that males can influence the sex ratio of their offspring
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Dinosaur Robots Return with a Vengeance
A new concept album by MJ Hibbett & The Validators envisions an invasion of alien cyborg dinosaurs
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Arabic Manuscripts: It Used To Snow in Iraq
Baghdad was the bustling capital of the vast Islamic Empire a thousand years ago, when the city’s climate was much different than today
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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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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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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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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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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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Smithsonian paleontologist Matthew Carrano explains how to identify dinosaurs from isolated teeth
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Scientists Move Closer to Creating an Invisibility Cloak
As far as the microwaves were concerned, the 7-inch-long tube did not exist — is true invisibility that far away?
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