Humans
- Humans
A diamond polish for ancient tools
People in Stone Age China may have used diamonds to polish their stone axes.
- Health & Medicine
Football Scrapes and Nasty Infections
The scrapes suffered by professional football players on the field can lead to serious skin infections.
- Health & Medicine
Lost Sight, Found Sound
Brain areas devoted to vision can take on other duties following loss of sight.
- Archaeology
Decoding a beverage jar
Ancient pottery provides hints of the world's oldest known wine.
- Animals
Toxic Birds May Get Poison from Beetles
Eating certain beetles may make the skin and feathers of some birds poisonous.
- Humans
Little people cause big surprise
Scientists uncover the skeleton of a small-bodied relative of human beings.
- 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.
- Tech
A taste for cheese
Researchers aim for cheese that is tastier, more nutritious, and easier to make than those now available.
- Animals
superfast muscles for cooing doves
To coo, a dove's muscles have to contract and relax amazingly quickly.
- Psychology
Worlds of self-esteem
The way you feel about yourself can affect what other people think of you.
- Health & Medicine
Spitting Up Blobs to Get Around
A nasty parasite finds a new host by making a fly cough up a blob of gel.
