Life

Fossils

Dino find ruffles feathers

Nearly-perfect, newfound dinosaur fossil reveals more dinos were feathered than previously thought.

Animals

A trout’s nose-y magnets

Cells in a fish’s snout respond to magnets.

Health & Medicine

Tomatoes’ tasteless green gene

The tomatoes your great-grandparents ate probably tasted little like the ones you eat today.

Fossils

Hot or cold dinos

Patterns in dinosaur bones fuel a debate over whether they were warm- or cold-blooded.

Animals

Cool Jobs: Studying what you love

Researchers study the same animals that fascinated them as kids.

Plants

Whale-free perfume

Tree gene trick is good news for people who like perfume made without sperm whale waste.

Animals

Chimp’s gift for numbers

Translating numbers into colors may explain an animal’s apparent memory trick.

Brain

Sweets on the brain

Sugar-free sweeteners fool the body’s internal computer.

Animals

Bye-bye, George

Ambassador of endangered species everywhere dies from old age.

Animals

Skeeters ride the rain

Mosquitoes survive collisions with raindrops by going with the flow.

Fossils

End of big bug era

Flying predators probably gobbled up the biggest of the large flying insects 150 million years ago

Brain

The smell of old people

Tests show that older adults have a distinct odor, but it isn’t bad.