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Pandas Actually Hang Out Together
GPS tracking data sheds light on giant pandas secretive societies
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Crossing Your Fingers Could Reduce Pain (No Lie)
Researchers find the spatial arrangement of our digits affects the sensations they feel
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It Doesn’t Matter How Much Time Parents Spend With Their Kids
New research shows no link between amount of time spent with children and emotional, behavioral, or academic outcomes
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Why These Stone-Age Farmers Took the Flesh Off Their Dead
New research shows evidence of an early burial rite
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How ‘Waves’ Rippling Through Bird Flocks Help Them Escape Predators
Starlings are known for their coordinated movements and a common study animal for researchers seeking to explain such behavior
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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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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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New Census Data Shows Fastest-Growing Areas
Florida, Texas post big gains in 2013-2014 statistics
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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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Want to Live Longer? Don’t Sleep So Much
New research links longer sleep duration with a shorter life
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Here’s How Music Really Could Soothe Your Soul
A leading scholar theorizes that music developed as an evolutionary adaptation to help us deal with the contradictory nature of 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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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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The Rules of Wrinkling, From Brain Folds to Pumpkin Ridges
Creases, ridges, folds and “delaminated buckles” are all different forms of wrinkling
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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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There’s a Good Reason Why People Really Hate Paying Their Taxes
In a word: corporations
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We’re Taking All the Water Out of the Ground And Causing Sea Levels to Rise
Pumping water out of aquifers at the rate we do doesn’t just threaten the water supply, it also exacerbates the effects of climate change
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