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We Choose Friends Who Are Genetically Similar to Us
On average, our friends are like the genetic equivalents of fourth cousins
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Yet other researchers think that different factors, such as the quality and timing of practice, matter most
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Astronomers Are Doing Real Science With Space Photos They Found on Flickr
Want to help research? Grab a camera and point it to the heavens
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There’s No Laundry in Space, So NASA is Trying to Make Clothes That Don’t Get Smelly
Astronauts got a shipment of fresh, hopefully odor-resistant gym clothes
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We Know Physics is Largely White and Male, But Exactly How White and Male is Still Striking
Most current physics students will likely never have an African American physics teacher, says a new survey
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Some Ancient Assyrians Ignored the Advent of Writing for Thousands of Years
It took thousands of years for Assyrians to finally give up primitive record-keeping methods
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Human Skin Can Detect Odors, Some of Which May Help Trigger Healing
Olfactory cells occur all over the body, not just in the nose
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A Deadly Fungus Is Wiping Out Frogs and Toads—But Some Can Develop Resistance
Scientists hope it might be possible to develop a vaccine to the fungus, based on the frog and toad’s immunity
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There’s a Very Good Reason Explosives Are Being Set Off on Mount St. Helens
The explosions will let geologists peek inside the volcano’s magma chamber
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Forget the Fastest Route. Why Not Use Digital Maps to Plan the Most Beautiful Instead?
Yahoo is developing an algorithm that will allow you to choose the scenic route
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Watch the Unnerving Gait of This 410 Million-Year-Old Arachnid
Working from well-preserved fossils, paleontologists reproduced the trigonotarbids’ walk
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Fat Corals Fare Best As Climate Changes
Corals with significant energy reserves that welcome all types of symbiotic algae species won’t easily die if hit with multiple bleaching events
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You May Have Been Eating Mushrooms That Were Unknown to Science
Scientists just discovered three new species of mushroom… in a London shop
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Gliese 581g, the First Exoplanet Found That May Have Been Able to Host Life, Doesn’t Actually Exist
So long Gliese 581g, the potentially habitable exoplanet that never was
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Titan’s Ocean Might Be as Salty as the Dead Sea
New data from the Cassini mission shows that the ocean under Titan’s ice shell is likely very salty
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Malaria Parasites Might Make Their Infected Hosts Smell Tastier for Mosquitoes
So far, the finding has only been shown in mice
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What Scientists Thought Was a Single Species Is Actually 126-Plus
One species of lichen, genetic sequencing revealed, was many, many, many species
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Archeologists Find Evidence of Torture at 1,200 Year Old Massacre
An archaeological dig in Colorado was the site of a horrific massacre
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High-Ranking Male Biology Professors Train Significantly Fewer Female Students
This might help explain why fewer women than men go on to hold biology professorships
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Chilean Devil Rays Found to Be Among the Deepest-Diving Animals in the Ocean
The surface-dwelling marine creatures regularly dive more than one mile deep, scientists find
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