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Gold Nanoparticles Can Remote Control the Brain
It’s just the latest twist in nanotech that is using gold as medicine
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Major Science Publisher Admits “Fabricated” Peer Reviews
But are BioMed Central’s retractions just the tip of the iceberg?
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Here’s More About the Drug Behind Indiana’s HIV Epidemic
Illegal use of Opana, or oxymorphone, is fueling a public health crisis in Scott County, Ind.
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Hundreds of Car-Sized Fossil Amphibians Found in a Mass Grave
The huge creature is related to modern-day newts, salamanders and frogs
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Why Would Cooling Rice Make it Less Caloric?
Scientists suggest a new way to prepare rice that they say could help slow the worldwide obesity epidemic
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NASA’s Twin Study May Never Be Published
Privacy concerns could stymie NASA’s study of Scott and Mark Kelly
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How Tampons Might One Day Help Detect Cancer
New research suggests tampons could screen for endometrial cancer
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Mozambique has “Kitten-Sized” Rats Trained to Sniff Out Tuberculosis
Highly trained rodents are helping doctors better diagnose TB in a region hard hit by the deadly disease
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Want to Live Longer? Don’t Sleep So Much
New research links longer sleep duration with a shorter life
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Journey to the Center of Earth
Largest Asteroid Crater Ever Discovered Underground in Australia
Deep in Earth’s mantle, scientists find evidence of a colossal impact that could reveal new information about Earth’s history
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Here’s Why Your Eyes Seem to Be Wired ‘Backward’
Light has to pass through nerve cells to get to the rods and cones, but that order is no mistake
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Make Your Mark on Pluto by Helping Name Its Features
The New Horizons team is asking the public for help labeling the maps of Pluto and one of its moons
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Here’s Why the Navy Designed a New Diving Suit
New design spurred by a global helium shortage
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Got Allergies? Air Pollution Could Be to Blame
New research suggests that ozone and nitrogen dioxide can alter allergens, creating more potent immune responses
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What’s Causing This Village’s Weird Sleeping Sickness Epidemic?
About a quarter of residents in a small town in Kazakhstan have fallen into a deep sleep for days at a time—and no one knows why
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Mystery Mammals’ Ancestry Was Revealed by Proteins, Not DNA
The huge rhino-like animal and trunked llama-like animal posed a mystery until now
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Every Year Spring Gets 30 Seconds Shorter
But the good news is that summer will be that much longer thanks to some peculiarities in how the Earth moves
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