Mycologist Nicholas Money reveals the secret (and dramatic) lives of amoebas, bacteria, fungi and other often-overlooked microbes in The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes.
The Illustris Project traces the detailed evolution of the universe starting from 12 million years after the Big Bang.
Researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl ever discovered: Kptodrakon progenitor soared over the Earth 163 million years ago.
A debate has arisen over whether an astronaut passing a black hole’s point of no return would get stretched to death or flash-fried. Resolving the controversy may lead to new insights about gravity and more.
A high birthweight might signal health risks later in life.
Estimating the adult height and weight of an ancient youth from his skeleton has proven tricky.
Ocean-dwelling bacteria may have helped end global warming 56 million years ago by gobbling up carbon from the CO2-laden atmosphere.
A gravitational lens in a binary star lets astronomers weigh the core of a dead star.
Female penis, male vagina have been discovered in tiny Brazilian insects.
First acoustic tags on Antarctic minke whales suggest the marine mammals are the long-sought source of the mysterious bio-duck sound.
Physicists have achieved nearly perfect control over a bit of quantum information, bringing them a step closer to error-free computation.
Tiny beads of sweat may offer new way to identify people’s fingerprints.
If their father doesn’t keep them hydrated, frog embryos react by hatching early.
Compared with typing on a laptop, writing notes by hand may lead to deeper understanding of lecture material.
Noncellular material implanted in patients attracts stem cells to fix injuries.
Drongos are false alarm specialists that borrow other species’ warning sounds and freshen up their fraud.
Using hijacked genes, deep-sea viruses help sulfur-eating bacteria generate power in the plumes of hydrothermal vents.
As the number of MERS cases increases, researchers race to learn more about the deadly virus carried by camels.
Blood — or one of its protein components — restores some of youth’s vibrancy to elderly mouse brains.
Since “Romneycare” was phased in, mortality fell by 2.9 percent.
Upside-down sloths have to hold their organs up and their food down.
Despite new telescopes and technology, no one knows whether the universe is infinitely large or even if what has been observed is the only universe that exists.
An examination of animal lifestyles reveals that the most important factor linked to longer life is the ability to fly.
New York's National Museum of Mathematics offers a physical, tactile, even rambunctious presentation of math.
Acoustic engineer Trevor Cox provides an international tour of aural amazements.
