Life
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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- Animals
BOOK LIST | Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
The story of a chimp being raised by humans —and washing the dishes (p.130). NIM CHIMPSKY: THE CHIMP WHO WOULD BE HUMAN Bantam Books, 2008, 269 p., $23.
- Health & Medicine
Tame-walk potion
A one-two sting and a cockroach lets a wasp lead it like a dog on a leash.
- Chemistry
Life before proteins
Spheres of fat suggest a way that life on Earth could have gotten started.
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- Life
Replaying evolution
By watching bacteria evolve in the lab for 20 years, researchers show that evolution may be rather capricious.
- Life
Tracing human roots
Using a new method of data analysis, researchers have found that the Americas were peopled in two different migrations.
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- Health & Medicine
Monkey think, robotic monkey arm do
In a step toward someday making brain-controlled prosthetic arms for people, scientists have trained monkeys to control a robotic arm with their thoughts. Click on the image to read the story and see the video.
- Life
Killer bee colonization
A NASA project will combine satellite observations of plant growth in the continental United States and projections of how climate might change in coming years to estimate where “killer bees” could ultimately survive in the wild.
- Earth
Life down deep
Deep-sea sediments provide a habitat for diverse and abundant populations of microorganisms and may be home to as much as 70 percent of the bacteria on the planet, new studies suggest.
- Paleontology
Walking tall
Some types of the largest flying reptiles ever known were well adapted to life on the ground.
