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Tech

Explorer of the extreme deep

A new project to build an improved research sub aims to shed light on the mysterious ocean depths.

Humans

Little people cause big surprise

Scientists uncover the skeleton of a small-bodied relative of human beings.

Animals

Growing up in dangerous waters

Wild guppies that live in dangerous places don't live fast and die young as scientists previously thought.

Tech

Inspired by nature

Researchers are applying lessons learned from butterflies, beetles, mussels, and other creatures to problems of human survival.

Chemistry

Pencil Thin

Wispy sheets of carbon could be the next microscale construction material.

Fossils

Early birds ready to rumble

A fossil hints that prehistoric baby birds could have fed themselves soon after hatching.

Health & Medicine

Packing Fat

Even among kids, waistlines are bulging, and many people are worried about the trend.

Brain

Fruit fly brain has two clocks

Fruit flies have not one, but two built-in clocks to regulate daily activity.

Brain

Hearing Better in the Dark

Blind people are better at locating distant sounds than people who can see.

Tech

Cold house, hot house, green house

Saving energy at home requires paying attention to the building's windows, walls, and roof.

Animals

Wintering apart, returning together

Birds that fly off to different places in winter can still manage to return home at the same time in spring.

Space

A dusty birthplace

Evidence of separate bands of dust suggests the presence of a planet orbiting a young star.