Humans
- 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.
- Animals
An inspiring home for apes
A group of scientists wants to establish preserves where orangutans and other primates have the chance to learn and create.
- Animals
Hot tail gives warning
Ground squirrels can heat up their tails to signal and perhaps taunt rattlesnakes.
- Humans
Words of the distant past
Human ancestors may have been able to talk as far back as 350,000 years ago.
