Analyze This!
Exploring science through data, graphs, visualizations and more.
- Animals
Analyze This: Hurricanes may help lizards evolve better grips
Lizards have larger toepads in areas that tend to have higher hurricane activity. This suggests high winds select for those that can hang tight.
- Animals
Analyze This: Shimmering colors may help beetles hide
Delve into data showing how brilliant colors that shift as a viewer — or predator — moves may help iridescent insects blend in.
- Animals
Analyze This: Amphibian populations are on the decline
The chytrid fungus has been wiping out amphibians around the world. Scientists have tallied up the declines and found that the fungus is responsible for dozens of extinctions.
- Materials Science
Analyze This: Do exotic woods make better guitars?
When comparing the sound of guitars made from rare and costly woods to those made with common, cheaper alternatives, guitarists couldn’t tell much of a difference.
- Health & Medicine
Analyze This: Most teens have been cyberbullied
Name-calling was the most common type of six types of cyberbullying that surveyed teens reported.
- Health & Medicine
Analyze This: Most teen girls don’t meet guidelines for daily exercise
Girls trail boys in the amount of exercise they tend to get each day regardless of race.
- Health & Medicine
Analyze This: A good reason to drive with an adult in the car
Teens are much safer drivers during their “learner” stage, when there’s an adult in the car. Once they get a license and begin to drive solo, they exhibit more reckless behaviors.
- Climate
Analyze This: How hot will it get?
Temperatures are rising because of human-caused climate change. But some places will get hot faster than others.
- Physics
Analyze This: Can you outrun these geological disasters?
There's one geological disaster you probably can outrun, and a few others that are iffy.
- Environment
Analyze This: Beauty products are big sources of urban air pollution
In cities, a larger share of urban air pollution comes from the use of bath products, cleansers and more than does the burning of fossil fuels.
- Microbes
Analyze This: These viruses are behemoths
Scientists keep finding larger and larger viruses. Just how big can these microbes get?
- Psychology
Analyze This: The power in being understanding of your flaws
Expecting nothing but perfection from yourself can lead to depression. Forgiving yourself after mistakes can lower your risk of feeling bad, a new study finds.
