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Here’s One Very Good Reason to Drill Deep Into an Active Fault
Scienctists hope to install instruments at the fault to observe changes in the earth at depth
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Why Is Antarctic Sea Ice at a 35-Year High?
Nobody really knows, but they have some thoughts
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Bionic Hands Partially Restore Users’ Sense of Touch
The hand’s sensors communicate directly with the wearer’s nerves
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Google Maps an Oasis in the Desert From the Back of a Camel
The desert is not the best place for a Street View car
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For the First Time Ever, a Woman With a Transplanted Uterus Gave Birth to a Baby
Two more women with transplanted uteruses are due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, too
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Each Day, 50 Percent of America Eats a Sandwich
About 20 percent of our daily sodium intake is delivered between two slices of bread
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How Exactly Does Exercise Help Your Brain?
Well-trained muscles could be protecting the body from an imbalance of chemicals that lead to depression
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Some Surgery Is No Better Than Sham “Placebo” Surgery
The placebo effect isn’t just for pills
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Cancer Spreads Through Our Bodies at Night
This could mean that therapies delivered after dark might be more effective
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Scientists Figure Out Why Mozzarella Is the Perfect Pizza Cheese
It’s all about the elasticity, moisture and oil content
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Many of the Same Brain Regions Are Activated When Mothers Look at Their Pets or Their Children
It seems that maternal attachment does not discriminate between species
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The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors
The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes
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Satellite Observations Revealed Thousands of New Mountains Right Here on Earth
There are thousands of mountains dotting the sea floor
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What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?
A lifetime of chronic health issues
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Could Climate Change Affect the Number of Boys and Girls Born?
Whether boy babies outnumber girl babies could be influenced by war, temperature and other stress factors
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A Second Baby Thought Cured of HIV Relapsed When Taken Off Antiviral Drugs
Antiretroviral drugs can control, but not cure, HIV in children
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Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around
When human presence forces cheetahs to expend more energy, however, it put the animals’ survival at risk
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The Man in the Moon Was Made By Radioactivity, Not Meteors
Differential cooling caused by radioactive material in the crust caused one of the Moon’s most distinctive features
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How the Humble Hydra Lives, As Far as We Know, Forever
Hydra don’t seem to die of old age. But why?
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