News

  1. Humans

    Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer

    A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sleep and sunscreen affect your bite appeal.

    By Meghan Rosen
  2. Animals

    Octopus arms are adaptable but some are favored for particular jobs

    Octopuses are ambidextrous, a new study finds, but they favor their front arms for investigating surroundings and their back arms for locomotion.

    By Jake Buehler
  3. Paleontology

    Crystallized dino eggs provide a peek into the tumultuous Late Cretaceous

    Definitively dating the age of a clutch of fossil dinosaur eggs at a famous site in China may let scientists link eggshell features to environmental shifts at the time.