Life
- Animals
Alien carp leap onto the scene
Last summer, Alison Coulter got a big surprise as she piloted a boat along the Wabash River in Indiana. Startled by her boat’s motor, a 60-centimeter (24-inch) carp leaped out of the river. In some cases, jumping Asian carp have broken a boater’s nose, jaw or arm.
- Brain
Video games: When granddad wins
With some practice, people over 60 bested untrained 20-year-olds.
- Health & Medicine
Meet the new meat
Scientists made a hamburger without harming animals; but it cost as much as a house.
- Animals
Mud worth more than gold
Reed Scherer and Ross Powell have studied mud from all over the world. It is different in each place. Mud from the Sulu Sea near Borneo is as smooth as cream cheese. Mud from Chesapeake Bay, in the mid-Atlantic United States, clings to your skin like peanut butter.
- Brain
Putting the brakes on overeating
Restoring a chemical in the gut sends a message to mouse brains to stop overeating.
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- Animals
Gorgeous eco-bullies
‘Foreign’ lionfish — aquarium castoffs — have been invading American coastal waters at an alarming rate and gobbling up the natives.
- Brain
Caffeine rewires brains of baby mice
Brain changes and memory problems plagued mouse pups whose moms had consumed caffeine during pregnancy.
- Brain
Sleepyheads prefer junk food
A night without sleep changes the brain and how appetizing people find high-calorie foods.
- Health & Medicine
Camels linked to mystery disease
A mysterious and deadly virus has sickened 94 people — killing 46 — in parts of the Middle East, Europe and northern Africa. A new study finds that camels (the one-humped type) may have introduced the new disease to people. The germ responsible is a virus that lives in people’s lungs, throats and noses. Scientists recently named the disease it causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS.
- Animals
Explainer: Animals’ role in human disease
Wildlife, livestock and pets are the source of most germs that can sicken people
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