New Research
How White Lies Snowball Into Full-On Deception
Using brain scans, researchers find evidence that bad feelings associated with lying lessen over time
How a Genetically Engineered Virus Could Help the Brain Fight Alcohol Cravings
Heavy drinking can change the brain to make cravings worse. Can gene therapy change it back?
Two-Million-Year-Old Jaw Has a Lot to Say About the Origins of Human Handedness
Scientists have discovered one of the earliest examples of handedness in an ancient human
Pediatricians Switch Up Screen Time Rules for Tots
Doctors say there’s no “one size fits all” approach to introducing kids to technology
Scientists Hijacked Tobacco Plants to Make Malaria Drugs
A promising new advance could make the world's best anti-malarial drug more widely available
Scientists Just Discovered a Missing Link Between San Francisco’s Faults
Two of California's most active fault lines appear to be a 118-mile-long fault instead
Scientists Stumble on a New Way to Tackle Carbon Emissions: Turn It Into Alcohol
A surprising new use for nanotechnology essentially reverses combustion
This Breathtaking Map Traces Hydrogen Throughout the Milky Way
Scientists have made the most detailed map of our home galaxy’s hydrogen currently possible
Neanderthals May Have Given Us Both Good Genes and Nasty Diseases
DNA analysis shows ancient hominds transmitted genes that may have helped us adapt quicker to Europe and Asia. They also gave us HPV.
Wild Monkeys Unintentionally Make Stone Age Tools, But Don't See the Point
Scientists observe a “unique” human behavior in wild animals
Cave Paintings Help Unravel the Mystery of the ‘Higgs Bison'
The hybrid bovine has been a missing link in the ancestral tree of modern European bison
How Scorpion Venom Is Helping Doctors Treat Cancer
When injected into the body, Tumor Paint lights up cancers. The drug could lead to a new class of therapeutics
Can Resource Scarcity Really Explain a History of Human Violence?
Data from thousands of California burial sites suggests that a lack of resources causes violence. But that conclusion may be too simplistic
Fur Real: Scientists Have Obsessed Over Cats for Centuries
Ten of the best feline-focused studies shed light on our relationship with these vampire-hunting, sexy-bodied killers
Did a Comet Set Off Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago?
Tiny glass beads found in New Jersey and Bermuda suggest this dramatic warming period began with an impact
How Bats Ping On the Wing—And Look Cute Doing It
Researchers reveal how bats turn echolocation signals into a 3-D image of moving prey
Hungry for Morel Mushrooms? Head to Yosemite
It turns out that the shriveled shrooms love forests ravaged by fire
Uranus May Have Been Hiding Two Moons
Researchers spotted ripples in the planet's rings, which may be tracks left from two tiny moons
Craters Are Forming on the Moon Faster Than Anyone Predicted
New research digs into the changes on the pockmarked lunar surface
Scientists Are Creating an Atlas of Human Cells
The Human Cell Atlas will boldly go where science, surprisingly, hasn’t gone before
Page 124 of 242