Humans

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.

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.

Humans

Words of the distant past

Human ancestors may have been able to talk as far back as 350,000 years ago.