Science Jul 02 Watch ideas light up a fish’s brain Scientists at the NIH are mapping the activity of thousands of individual neurons inside the brain of a zebrafish as the animal hunts for food. In a small, windowless room that houses two powerful electron microscopes, a scientist is searching…
Science Jun 18 Architects, engineers compete to save the New York coastline After Hurricane Sandy devastated the New York City area, winners of the Rebuild By Design competition found that New Yorkers needed more than flood walls. They needed to change the way they live with water.
Nation Jun 13 Innovative research focuses on family role of overlooked dads Psychologists often focus on role of mothers in children’s development. Writer Paul Raeburn asks: when it comes to raising children, what does dad have to do with it?…
Science Jun 09 Rats regret their decisions, study finds Regret, it turns out, is not just a human emotion. Rats regret their bad decisions too, a study in the journal Nature Neuroscience finds. And only a few of them learn from it.
Science Jun 06 Forget the queen: bees and humans work together without a leader Queen bees have no power. So how do bees, and humans, work together when no one is in charge? Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Connecticut find out.
Science Jun 05 Koalas are treehuggers because it’s cool Koalas make coo-worthy photos when they cuddle up to Australia’s trees, where they live. But trees are more than shelter to the arboreal marsupials. Scientists recently learned that koalas use trees as their personal air conditioners.
Science Jun 04 Gravitational waves discovery may flatline under new analysis This spring scientists announced that they had found gravitational waves, the "smoking gun" evidence that the universe rapidly expanded in the trillionths of a second after the Big Bang. But new studies suggest that waves they found were just dust…
Science Jun 03 Robotic dinosaur could outrun Usain Bolt Velociraptors, such as the ones as portrayed in “Jurassic Park," were vicious hunters known for their speed and agility. The ancient reptiles died out 75 million years ago, but their anatomy has inspired modern-day robotics.
Health Jun 02 Sleep problems have the same effects on students’ grades as drug abuse, new study finds Researchers at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. scoured through 43,000 responses to the 2009 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey, looking for the connections between sleep problems and academic success. They found…