Health Aug 17 Olympic athletes use them, but do these recovery therapies really work? The proven benefits of athletic therapies like cupping, a traditional eastern medicine technique made famous by Michael Phelps and others at the Rio Games, are often unclear.
Science Aug 12 Meet the oldest known vertebrate in the world A Greenland shark just took home the gold medal for longest-living vertebrate. This slow-moving native of the Arctic and North Atlantic can live to be 272 years old, according to a new study in Science.
Science Jun 30 NASA's Juno zooms in on Jupiter On Independence Day, NASA's Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and beam photos and other data 1.8 billion miles back to Earth. After traveling five years and 1,740 million miles at more than…
Science Jun 23 People want self-driving cars to value passenger safety over pedestrians, study says Researchers find a moral inconsistency around self-driving vehicles that could present roadblocks to greater public safety.
Science Jun 15 How do dolphins communicate? Cracking the code of the mammal's whistles and clicks Denise Herzing’s research team hopes to better understand the spotted dolphins’ underwater communication system.
Science May 09 The incredible acrobatics of the tree frog, in slow motion The toe pad of the Amazon milk frog can hold up to 14 times the animal’s body weight. That’s like an average American man holding a Honda Civic… with his toes.
Science Apr 29 Why are peacock tail feathers so enchanting? To better understand the role that peacock tail feathers play in sexual selection, scientists have turned their attention to a tail-shaking move known as "train-rattling."…
Science Apr 18 Reliving the earthquake that changed earthquake science In the early hours of April 18, 1906, a magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 earthquake shook San Francisco awake. Buildings crumbled, water mains ruptured and fires broke out across the city. Those fires fueled a massive inferno would raged through San…
Science Apr 06 A day in the life of a weather balloon Dan Wolfe is a "balloon man." For more than 40 years, he has released weather balloons into the sky.
Nation Mar 04 These guys quit their day jobs to visit every single national park Last year, 30-year-old Darius Nabors did something many Americans only dream of. He quit his job and hit the road.