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The Draconid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week
Clear skies and little moonlight make for great meteor watching
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The Past and Present of Mars Look Wetter and Wetter
From salty streaks of flowing water to an ancient system of rivers and lakes, Mars seems more hospitable to life than previously thought
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Listen to the Sweet Sounds of Slime Mold
Two artists transform the bioelectricity of microorganisms into song
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Another Step Closer to Male Birth Control Pills
A protein might lead to an oral contraceptive for men
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The Increasingly Muddled Origins of Homo Naledi
Detailed analyses of Homo naledi shows a mosaic of both early and modern human features
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Feast Your Eyes on an Optical Illusion Cake
This may be the most delicious optical illusion
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What Cyclists Can Learn From Schools of Fish
A weaker athlete might be able to keep up if they stay to the back of a group
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It Wasn’t Just an Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs, Epic Volcanoes Helped
A new study ignites a decades-old debate about what killed the dinosaurs
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How Nature Inspired the Medicine Nobel Prize Winners to Fight Parasites
Their discoveries saved the lives of millions of people around the world
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Michigan Farmer Stumbles on a Mammoth Skeleton
Paleontologists excavated the skeleton, prying the bones from the dark muck of the field
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Notoriously Durable Styrofoam Could Be Munched by Mealworms
Microbes in the beetle larvae’s guts help break down polystyrene
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Why Scientists Are Gathering Seeds From Roadside Sunflowers
Climate changes threatens commercial sunflower production, where plants are grown for their oil
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What Fingerprints Can Reveal About Ancestry
Clues as to whether people have European or African lineage may show up in the fine details of their fingers
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The Secret to Better Biofuels May Lie in Panda Poop
Microbes in the panda’s guts might help make biofuels cheaper
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Researchers Devise Way to Determine Color from Fossils
Researchers now know how to tell what color an ancient animal was from its fossils
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Scientists Just Found a Sea Turtle That Glows
The turtle is the first biofluorescent reptile ever found in the wild
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Yet Another Highly-Venomous Snake Discovered in Australia
The Kimberley death adder is one of the most venomous snakes in the world
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Climate Change Is Turning 500-Year Floods Into 24-Year Ones
Rising sea levels and an increase in large storms will continue to threaten the Atlantic coast
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Babies Time Their Adorable Smiles to Manipulate Adults
By timing their grins, babies can get adults to grin
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