News
- Humans
Brain waves make a fast brake
New technology would allow drivers to slam on the brakes faster just by thinking about it.
- Life
Dolphin may sense the body electric
Organs on the species' snout help it detect faint fields, like those generated by prey.
- Space
Magnetic waves bake the sun’s corona
New observations may explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere is so blazing hot.
- Health & Medicine
Better transplants through centrifuging
Removing some antibodies from the blood of kidney recipients can improve their long-term outlooks, a study finds.
- Physics
C’mon radio, let’s do the twist
Molding signals into spiral shape might expand airwaves’ capacity.
- Physics
No new physics — yet
The world's largest collider has failed to match odd results coming from its nearest rival.
- Health & Medicine
Chimp brains don’t shrink
Primate studies aim to find out why humans get dementia.
- Health & Medicine
Tossing, turning, forgetting
A new study in mice finds that sleep disturbance erodes memory.
- Space
Going where no Mars rover has gone before
NASA's next Mars mission, Curiosity, will land in the Red Planet's Gale Crater.
- Health & Medicine
‘Wave of death’ may not be a last gasp
A minute after decapitation, a rat's severed head shows signs of life.
- Psychology
Kids share, chimps stash
Divvying up goods comes easily to 3-year-old kids but not to adult chimps, a finding with evolutionary implications.
- Physics
Particle discovery fills a gap
The neutral xi-sub-b is the eighth of nine predicted family members to be found.
