News

  1. Computing

    Hairy Calculations: Picturing tresses in a truer light

    Hard-to-simulate blond hair may look more natural in future animations thanks to a new computer model that allows for hairs' transparency and includes the illumination produced by light propagating from hair to hair.

    By Peter Weiss
  2. Animals

    Babbling Bats: Do pups talk baby talk as human infants do?

    Young sac-winged bats make long strings of adultlike noises and could be the first animals besides some primates and birds that babble when they're babies.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Earth

    Breaking Crust: Sonar finds new kind of deep-sea volcano

    Undersea explorations more than 600 kilometers east of Japan have discovered evidence of a previously unknown type of volcanism.