Smartphones aren’t making millennials grow horns. Here’s how to spot a bad study
The “millennials are growing horns” study is flawed, and its journal has launched an internal review. Can you spot the study's six major problems?…
300 million years ago, our ancestors walked tall. This robot shows you how
The fictional Sherlock Holmes could read footprints — in soil, snow, carpet, dust and even blood. Researchers today are similarly using tracks caught in stone — plus a robot — to recreate a creature that lived 300 million years ago.
Why these sea slugs look so much like David Bowie
By drawing comparisons between sea slugs and Ziggy Stardust, the Bowiebranchia blog exposes the wild, beautiful and competitive evolution of both.
When these frogs move to cities, they change the way they flirt
As more humans move into concrete jungles, other animals, like túngara frogs, are joining them — and adjusting their behaviors along the way.
Two scientists drugged some cephalopods and were surprised to find that their reactions to MDMA were similar to those of humans, despite massive evolutionary differences.
A new ancient DNA study reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species.
Three new studies rewrite the timeline on early human innovation and long-distance trade.
The crested pigeon's mere act of taking frantic flight is enough to alert its flock of looming danger.
Climate change is starving out Madagascar's greater bamboo lemur, a study published Thursday reports in Current Biology.
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