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How Do Some Clocks Set Themselves?
With Daylight Saving Time set to start, take a look inside the radio-controlled clocks that adjust automatically
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Could The Sun Set Off The Next Big Natural Disaster?
A new study finds that a strong solar storm could disable satellites for a decade
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Why Does Grapefruit Mess With Your Medicine?
The juicy fruit can cause negative side effects with a number of prescription and over-the-counter medicines
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The Sound Gun That Will Leave You Speechless
A new device uses an auditory phenomenon to silence people remotely
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Climate Change’s Latest Victim: Ice Hockey
For outdoor ice rinks, hockey season has gotten shorter in the past 50 years
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Pine and spruce trees managed to survive in certain spots in Scandinavia, according to DNA analyses
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Better Sleep in the Golden Years?
A large survey finds that the elderly are more satisfied with their sleep habits than are people in any other age group
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are reasons to be very positive about this result, but also reasons to be very cautious
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Anti-Gravity Machine for Levitating Fruit Flies
A powerful magnetic field counteracted Earth’s gravity and disrupted gene expression during development
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Geeky Gifts for Your Valentine
Having trouble finding a gift that matches the brilliance of your Valentine? We’ve got the solutions
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Oldest Animals Ever Discovered
The sponge-like organisms date back to about 760 million years ago, extending the known time span of animals by 17 percent
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The Wandering Albatross and Global Warming
The giant oceanic birds are producing more and plumper chicks, at least for now
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