Jul 20 Celebrate the Apollo 11 anniversary in pictures By Lora Strum Relive humanity's first moonwalk. Continue reading
Jul 20 What you need to know about norovirus, and why it’s dreaded By Andrew Joseph, STAT Suspected cases of norovirus, which involve a dozen Republican staffers in the Cleveland area for the Republican National Convention, have caused alarm. Continue reading
Jul 19 WATCH: Bees’ buzz unlocks secret stash of pollen By Lisa Marie Potter and Joshua Cassidy, KQED Only bees that buzz in just the right way can release tiny grains of pollen from a flower. Continue reading
Jul 18 What NASA could teach Tesla about the limits of autopilot By John Pavlus, Scientific American Decades of research have already warned about the human attention span in automated cockpits. Continue reading
Jul 15 First female-to-male sexual transmission of Zika reported in New York City By Nsikan Akpan A New York City resident has become the first woman suspected of transmitting Zika virus to a sexual partner. Continue reading
Jul 14 Pokémon GO uses augmented reality — or does it? By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American Pokémon GO’s pocket monsters may be taking over the world—but they’re not quite part of it yet, a tech pioneer insists… Continue reading
Jul 14 Ducklings make way for abstract thought, Oxford study finds By Nsikan Akpan An Oxford study uses pairs of swinging objects to determine that ducklings have abstract thoughts. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch 8:54 Medical marijuana research comes out of the shadows By PBS News Hour It was an unprecedented meeting of the minds and it happened at Harvard Medical School. The subject of April’s confab? Medical cannabis. Researchers suspect cannabis can do so many things, from fighting cancer to easing concussions and Crohn’s disease. There… Continue watching
Jul 13 New underwater microscope films kissing and fighting corals like never before By Leigh Anne Tiffany We can now get up close and personal with corals, watching how they kiss and fight, thanks to a new high-tech microscope. Continue reading
Jul 13 Culture, not biology, decides the difference between music and noise By Lora Strum A new study shows only cultures previously exposed to western music form opinions on consonance and dissonance, an element of music theory that establishes consonant chords as more aurally pleasing… Continue reading