News
- Space
How the moon got its magnetism
Earth’s tug or asteroid impacts may have generated the ancient lunar magnetic field.
By Nadia Drake - Life
Two steps to primate social living
Evolutionary shifts about 52 million and 16 million years ago led to the group structures observed today, researchers argue.
By Nick Bascom - Tech
Tiniest car gets a test drive
Scientists build the world's tiniest electric 'roadster,' and zap it into action.
- Life
A gland grows itself
Japanese researchers coax a pituitary to develop from stem cells in a lab dish.
- Life
Prehistoric horses came in leopard print
Dappled animals, once thought to be the result of selective breeding after domestication, were around when early humans depicted them on cave walls.
- Life
School rules
Fish coordinate with one, or perhaps two, of their neighbors to make group travel a swimming success.
By Devin Powell - Paleontology
DNA suggests North American mammoth species interbred
Supposedly separate types may really have been one.
By Susan Milius - Life
Giant beavers had hidden vocal talents
With air passageways in its skull like no other animal known, an extinct outsized rodent may have made sound all its own.
By Susan Milius - Psychology
Skateboarders rock physics
Skateboarding develops intuition about slope speeds unavailable to most people.
By Bruce Bower - Psychology
‘Gorilla man’ goes unheard
Paying attention to what others say can make listeners totally unaware of unexpected sounds.
By Bruce Bower - Health & Medicine
First brain image of a dream created
Feat opens the door to probing the stuff of nocturnal dramas.
- Chemistry
Headache tree is a pain in the brain
Following a gardener’s lead, researchers discover an ingredient in bay laurel that causes uncomfortable swelling of cranial blood vessels.