News

  1. Life

    Hey kitty, dogs drink like cats

    High-speed video shows that canines don’t simply scoop up water, they toss it into their mouths just like their feline frenemies.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Physics

    Gators go a-courtin’ with fancy physics

    Their subsonic mating bellows generate Faraday waves, a phenomenon almost never seen outside the lab.

    By Devin Powell
  3. Earth

    Germy with a chance of hail

    Aerial microbes can trigger precipitation and may influence global warming.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Chemistry

    Natural pain-killing chemical synthesized

    Conolidine — a headache to isolate from the plant that makes it — can now be produced from scratch in the lab, opening the promising compound to study.