Jun 13 Innovative research focuses on family role of overlooked dads By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy 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?… Continue reading
Jun 11 Suffocating cells for science By Jenny Marder If you believe that all living things need oxygen to breathe, you’re not only wrong, but hopelessly human-centric. But don’t be too hard on yourself. Most mammals are biased toward multicellular organisms. It’s true that humans, along with mammals, birds,… Continue reading
Jun 09 Rats regret their decisions, study finds By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy 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. Continue reading
Jun 06 Forget the queen: bees and humans work together without a leader By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy 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. Continue reading
Jun 05 Koalas are treehuggers because it’s cool By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy 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. Continue reading
Jun 04 More than 300 species discovered in Southeast Asia By Justin Scuiletti A total of 367 new species have been discovered in Southeast Asia, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund. Continue reading
Jun 04 Gravitational waves discovery may flatline under new analysis By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy 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… Continue reading
Jun 04 Looks like there’s a party in deep space and Hubble’s got the photos By Jenny Marder If a tractor full of confetti was launched into the night sky and then beamed with a strobe light, it might look something like the Hubble Space Telescope image above. It is, according to NASA, among the most colorful of… Continue reading
Jun 03 Robotic dinosaur could outrun Usain Bolt By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy 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. Continue reading
Jun 03 Harsh space winds diminish hopes for life on red-dwarf planets By Talia Mindich Space winds in the habitable zones of the most common star in the galaxy may be too severe to harbor life, a new study finds. Continue reading