As the light shines constantly on a silver slip of a fish, tiny dots begin to flash: blue, yellow, blue, yellow. The bodies "do not…
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He watches as a group of lions yawn and may look nothing more than big lazy cats acting asleep, but new research suggests these yawns…
Pipe dreamsChelsea WaldAvid Reader Press, $ 27 Everyone poops. But not everyone has a safe place to do it. In addition, existing wastewater treatments consume…
For the first time, physicists used lasers to freeze antimatter. In a new experiment, an ultraviolet laser suffered from the thermal concerns of the antihydrogen…
Representations of extinct human ancestors and cousins tend to be more art than science. Take, for example, two reconstructions of the Taung boy, a 2.8…
An old dirty trick is still with us. However, other financial matters change quickly. Check out this week's financial report. Tax and social security fraudsters…
Second of two parts Physicists have a lot in common with Ponce de León and Bono de U2. After decades of searching, they are no…
The Kalahari Desert, in southern Africa, is not normally considered a hotbed of Stone Age innovations. And yet, human culture flourished there about 105,000 years…
Studying tissues at a very high magnification helps determine how some masks filter particles better than others. And the close-ups reveal an invisible beauty of…
A century ago, people needed help to understand science. Much like they do today. So, like now, it wasn’t always easy to separate the exact…