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New Research

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People Are More Rational When Speaking in a Foreign Language

New Gene Provides Link Between Stress and Depression

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Quantum Computing Now At Least Vaguely Plausible

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Thinking About Your Own Demise Inspires Environmentalism

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Viking’s Most Powerful City Unearthed in Northern Germany

Archaeologists working in northern Germany may have found one of the most important cities in Viking history—Sliasthorp, where once sat Scandanavian kings

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U.S. & Europe are Hotspots for Deadly Emerging Diseases

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Physicists Pin Down New Particle, Won’t Quite Call It the Higgs

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Wrecked Rivers of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ Teem With Life Once More

Easter Island Drug Makes Mice Happier, Smarter

Bar-headed goose with a Mount Everest-simulating air mask.

Extreme Geese Reveal High-Altitude Secrets in Wind Tunnel

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The Genetic Engineering Plan to Turn Trees Black and Cool the World

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Virtual Pigeon Attracts, Baffles Randy Males

Hemingway’s Old Man Inspires Shark Oil for HIV Vaccine

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Not All Calories Are the Same, Says Harvard Study

Bacteria, Plants Turn Garbage Dump into Beautiful Park

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That Pixellated Uniform Pattern Was So Bad, The Army Trashed $5 Billion Worth

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Movie of the Inside of a Woman’s Body as She Gives Birth

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Scientists Confirm that Somali Pirates Are On Holiday Now, Too

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117th Element “Ununseptium” Confirmed, Will Get Name Not Stolen From Avatar

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Sea Level Rising Three Times Faster Than Average on Northeast US Coast

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