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- Brain
Two brain areas team up to make mental maps
To find your way around, you need to remember where you are and plan ahead. A new study shows there’s a brain area for each task.
- Physics
Getting ready for the solar eclipse
A total solar eclipse will race across the continental United States in August 2017. Scientists and the public are preparing to watch and learn.
- Tech
How to safely watch a solar eclipse
Certified safety glasses are a must for protecting your eyes when looking at the sun. Here’s how to safely enjoy a solar eclipse, like the one on August 21, 2017.
- Space
Citizen scientists wanted to make an eclipse megamovie
A solar eclipse will cross the United States on August 21, 2017. Video capture by people in the eclipse’s path can help with scientific research.
- Chemistry
Scientists know that you pee in the pool
A new way to find urine in pools and hot tubs measures the concentration of an artificial sweetener in the water.
- Physics
Eclipses come in many forms
Eclipses are one of nature’s most awesome spectacles, and scientists have learned a lot by observing them and related celestial alignments — occultations and transits.
- Health & Medicine
Ötzi the mummified Iceman actually froze to death
Ötzi the Iceman, a mummy whose icy 5,300-year-old remains turned up in the Alps in 1991, died of the cold — not murder. That’s the result of new forensic analyses.
- Health & Medicine
Concerns explode over new health risks of vaping
A host of brand new studies unearth worrisome health concerns related to teen vaping.
- Life
‘Nanostraws’ safely sneak a peek inside cells
Scientists have developed tiny straws that let them peek inside a living cell without killing it or even damaging it.
- Planets
Scientists Say: Eclipse
How the sun, moon and Earth line up determines whether there’s a solar or lunar eclipse.
- Brain
Just viewing super-size meals can promote overeating
Large portions of food dampen activity in a brain area involved in self-control, a new study shows.
- Animals
Industrious badger caught burying an entire cow
Badgers are known to bury small animals. That allows them to save a meal for future dining. Now researchers have caught them caching something much bigger: young cows.
