Thousands of robotic insects will take to the skies in pursuit of a shared goal
By Robert Wood , Radhika Nagpal and Gu-Yeon Wei | Mar 11, 2013 | 1
A bottlenose named Winter lost her tail to a crab trap. So scientists built her a new one
By Emily Anthes | Mar 8, 2013
Smallpox may be gone, but its viral cousins—monkeypox and cowpox—are staging a comeback
By Sonia Shah | Mar 4, 2013 | 3
A focus on the present, dubbed mindfulness, can make you happier and healthier. Training to deepen your immersion in the moment works by improving attention
By Amishi P. Jha | Mar 1, 2013 | 7
Cops can collect DNA when making an arrest, sometimes before charging a person with a crime. This practice poses a threat to the civil liberties of innocent people
By Erin Murphy | Feb 26, 2013 | 10
A devastating disease is killing citrus trees from Florida to California
By Anna Kuchment | Feb 25, 2013
New evidence of ancient ingenuity forces scientists to reconsider when our ancestors started thinking outside the box
By Heather Pringle | Feb 19, 2013 | 8
A modest effort to enlist amateur bird-watchers in the cause of ornithology wound up producing a fire hose of data and helping rewrite the rules of science
By Hillary Rosner | Feb 13, 2013 | 2
It's the flow of warm tropical water across the Atlantic that keeps European winters mild, right? Maybe not
By Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier | Feb 11, 2013 | 9
New fossil discoveries complicate the already devilish task of identifying our most ancient progenitors
By Katherine Harmon | Feb 6, 2013 | 13
Few petroleum-powered cars have ever surpassed 400 miles per hour. Now a group of students plans to do it in an electric vehicle
By Gregory Mone | Feb 4, 2013 | 5
By Daisy Yuhas | Feb 3, 2013
By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik | Feb 1, 2013
The hallowed notion that oxidative damage causes aging and that vitamins might preserve our youth is now in doubt
By Melinda Wenner Moyer | Jan 30, 2013 | 14
Playing violent video games can sharpen our focus, reasoning and decision-making skills. But do we really need the weapons?
By Lydia Denworth | Jan 29, 2013 | 11
Lessons from psychology could greatly improve courtroom decision-making, reducing racial bias, eyewitness errors and false confessions
By Scott O. Lilienfeld and Robert Byron | Jan 25, 2013 | 3
Microscopic analyses of chondrites, the oldest rocks in the solar system, are filling in details of what our neighborhood in space was like shortly before the planets formed
By Alan E. Rubin | Jan 23, 2013 | 6
Each concept—each person or thing in our everyday experience—may have a set of corresponding neurons assigned to it
By Rodrigo Quian Quiroga , Itzhak Fried and Christof Koch | Jan 15, 2013 | 29
A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs
By D. Kacy Cullen and Douglas H. Smith | Jan 14, 2013 | 1
How future generations will make the voyage from our earthly home to the planets and beyond—and what it means for our species
By Cameron M. Smith | Jan 11, 2013 | 24
A common but little understood malformation reveals the brain's incredible plasticity
By Claudia Christine Wolf | Jan 10, 2013
Newly discovered states of matter embody what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” They defy explanation, but lately answers have come from a seemingly unrelated corner of physics: string theory
By Subir Sachdev | Jan 10, 2013 | 8
Our many different senses collaborate even more than previously realized. What we hear depends a lot on what we see and feel
By Lawrence D. Rosenblum | Jan 9, 2013 | 1
The only way to bring flying cars to the masses is to leave the flying to the car
By Mary Cummings | Jan 8, 2013 | 22
If the world can't manage to cast off the ultimate weapons by the middle of the century, we may face extinction
By Ron Rosenbaum | Jan 7, 2013 | 28
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