It’s a squirrel-eat-squirrel world: researchers look into how wild animals gain and maintain social privilege
Learning about well-to-do squirrels can help make our own societies more equal.
CAPSTONE paves the way: NASA’s tiny satellite reaches the Moon to test orbit for future space station
A lot is riding on this 55-pound machine.
Researchers zero in on why older people are more vulnerable to influenza — and maybe other infections as well
One of our bodies' natural defensive processes may be to blame.
Could electrical stimulation and robot-assisted exercise reverse paralysis? New results are a resounding ‘yes!’
We're learning more and more about how our bodies can recover from spinal cord injuries.
Ancient Italian bath site yields an incredible treasure: 24 bronze statues found buried under mud
It's the most significant find of its kind in Italy in the last half-century.
We’ve discovered our first full sentence in the world’s oldest alphabet — a spell against lice, engraved on a comb
Lice were never nice, not even in the Bronze Age.
Researchers find clues about the earliest planets in the Universe from the corpse of a long-dead star
At what point does research cross from astrophysics into archeology?
A chance discovery shows that Stone Age child in Finland might have been buried alongside her dog
Finding organic material preserved in Finland's soils is exceedingly rare.
This window coating plans to make our buildings cooler without using any energy at all
It could cut down on energy used for cooling by 31%.
Two living participants receive the world’s first lab-grown blood transfusions in UK trial
It is hoped that this technology can help provide blood for urgent patients with rare blood types.
Ancient peoples in South America had both Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA — and we have no clue how it got there
Ancient peoples seem to have mingled much more than thought possible.
Where do skeletons come from? These 500-million-year-old jellyfish might have ‘invented’ them
We don't think of jellyfish as 'bony' -- but they might have invented skeletons.
How do night vision goggles work?
Such goggles can make night look bright as day.
Pet cats on the case: these pets trap human DNA in their fur, allowing for suspect identification
This DNA can remain in their fur for long periods of time.
“Optical electrodes” can read your mind, paving the way toward fully-functional prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces
These optrodes bypass several of the most glaring limitations of current electrodes.
The most detailed-ever atlas of the octopus visual system shows the differences and similarities when compared with humans
It can be hard to believe that boneless sea creatures share traits with us -- but they do!
European probe detects “unknown features” inside Phobos from the orbit of Mars
Quite fitting to be studying a moon named 'Fear' for Halloween.
What is the atomic number, and how did it manage to change the world?
That's a huge mark made by a tiny number.
This Halloween, do the right thing — fight food waste and eat your pumpkin
The scariest monster this Halloween is food waste.
The James Webb Space telescope peers back into the past to see galaxies being born
Although we've looked at this corner of the universe before, we've never seen it so clearly.