News
- Life
Having BFFs brings longevity to female baboons
A seven-year study of one African troop finds that females live longer if they form close, lasting friendships.
- Earth
African fossils suggest complex life arose early
Researchers find evidence that Earth’s earliest multicellular life got going 2.1 billion years ago.
- Earth
Moby Dick meets Jaws
A recently discovered fossil demonstrates that giant whales weren’t always as gentle as they are today.
- Health & Medicine
Controlling blood sugar may prevent eye problems in diabetes patients
Careful monitoring of glucose levels and taking drugs to control blood lipids and cholesterol can pay dividends, a large trial finds.
- Space
Making lemonade with quantum lemons
Physicists produce “spooky action at a distance,” using a phenomenon that would usually disrupt it.
- Ecosystems
Bats, wolves feel the heat
News from the annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Laramie, Wyo., June 11-15
- Life
Resveratrol shows activity against insulin resistance and retinal disease
A widely touted anti-aging compound shows activity in people and may work in new ways to fight eye disease.
- Life
Fishy odor just like dad’s
Imprinting on their fathers’ scent helps keep two fish species separate.
- Computing
Circling the square
The scientist who scanned the first digital image aims to smooth the pixel.
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Neutrino experiments sow seeds of possible revolution
Recent results from two experiments that examine the behavior of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos hint at the possibility of a revolution in particle physics.
- Archaeology
Serbian site may have hosted first copper makers
Newly identified remnants of copper smelting at a 7,000-year-old Serbian site fuel debate over where and when this practice began.
- Psychology
Social judgments take touching turns
New evidence suggests that the sense of touch influences people’s willingness to drive a hard bargain or endorse a job candidate.
