Science

Jennie Janssen, assistant curator of the Blue Wonders exhibit at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, offers six little-known facts she wants people to know about jellies. Continue reading →

Researchers are studying the way twins smell for clues about the genetic basis of mosquito appeal. Continue reading →

Cat domestication happened in two waves during ancient times, according to a new genetic analysis. Continue reading →

A compound found in broccoli improves diabetic outcomes to an extent that rivals the go-to drug treatment, with fewer severe side effects. Continue reading →

Only two species of yeast — ale yeast and lager yeast — have been used for traditional beer brewing over the last 600 years. A lab in North Carolina may have found a third in the strangest place: On bees and wasps. Continue reading →

The difference between coal and renewable energy is not whether they each pollute, but the forms that pollution takes, writes Duke University ecologist Emily S. Bernhardt. Continue reading →

Stanford engineers develop a way to wirelessly transmit energy to a device while it’s on the move. Continue reading →

Coal is still very much at the center of the debate on the future of energy. For some, the holy grail is a new type of technology that captures some coal carbon emissions. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to take a closer look at the results coming out of one of the largest fossil fuel power plants in the country and the obstacles stopping them from collecting more. Continue reading →

A recent study out of the University of Michigan shows Detroit had higher bumblebee numbers than less-urbanized areas of the states. Evidence suggests thousands of vacant lots in Detroit may be the reason behind the uptick. Continue reading →

The findings may push back the origin of our species by more than 100,000 years and challenge leading ideas about where and how our lineage evolved. Continue reading →