News Swedish kids will learn programming from their first year in primary school. They’ll also learn how to spot fake news March 16, 2017
News Superconductivity breakthrough could reset Europe’s power lines and make renewable energy more competitive March 16, 2017
News Mysterious 400,000-year-old skull found in Portugal might have belonged to a Neanderthal ancestor March 16, 2017
Science If there’s any life in the Trappist-1 system it’s likely been planet-hopping, scientists say March 16, 2017
Biology Spiders eat up to 800 million tons of insects and pests a year — much more than humanity March 16, 2017
Biology World’s oldest plant-like fossils indicate we might have to rethink emergence of multicellular life March 16, 2017
Animals Guillemot chicks leap from their nest, risking life and limb, before they can even fly — and know we know why March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
Animals Antibiotic use kills more bees by letting in harmful bacteria March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
News Google tool that calculates the solar energy potential of your rooftop expands to all 50 states March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
News The US doesn’t want poor people: concentrated poverty rises for the first time since the ’90s March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
News Scientists found a way to make car tires using eggshells and tomato peels March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
Home science Cooking at home is cheaper, more healthy, less fattening — a major boost for nutritional sustainability March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
Climate How climate change is forcing some scientists to move ice from a mountain in Bolivia to Antarctica March 14, 2017
Health Epilepsy patients turning more and more to medical cannabis March 14, 2017 - Updated on February 25, 2021
Astrophysics To birth supermassive black holes in the early universe, some galaxies may have had to be sacrificed March 14, 2017 - Updated on June 11, 2023
Mind & Brain Scientists ask the public’s help in getting to the bottom of consciousness — by cracking a chess problem March 14, 2017
News Students will eat at the salad bar — all it takes is marketing and some parental help March 14, 2017
News Artificial intelligence can write classical music like a human composer. It’s the first non-human artist whose music is now copyrighted March 14, 2017 - Updated on November 13, 2018
Biology Cells nudge each other with proteins when moving to keep your body in one piece March 14, 2017
News Wind energy could generate a quarter million new jobs by 2020 in the US alone, and an economic impact of $85 billion March 14, 2017
News Six years after a disastrous meltdown, it is now officially safe to live in some parts of Fukushima March 13, 2017
Mind & Brain Emotional computers really freak people out — a new take on the uncanny valley March 13, 2017 - Updated on July 20, 2023
Neurology Dendrites generate electrical spikes too — human brain computing capacity might be 100 times larger than thought March 13, 2017
Animals The invasive snakes on Guam are indirectly killing the forest March 13, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
Diseases Edible Ebola vaccine for wild apes could revolutionize how we fight the disease March 11, 2017
News NASA plans to use repellent coatings to coax liquids into flowing even when there is no “down” March 10, 2017
Art Robots could soon write emotional or motivating songs March 10, 2017 - Updated on February 22, 2019
Mind & Brain ADHD’s restlessness and impulsivity could actually make you a better entrepreneur, study finds March 10, 2017 - Updated on May 31, 2020
Biology Researchers complete 30% of the synthetic yeast chromosome — synthetic life is just around the corner March 10, 2017
Anthropology Dental plaque shows what Neanderthals took as drugs March 9, 2017 - Updated on March 10, 2017
Animals Every day, this man in Kenya drives hours and hours to bring water to wild animals March 9, 2017 - Updated on March 10, 2017
Biology Fungus-derived molecule enables axon regrowth — potentially treating brain and spinal chord injuries March 9, 2017
