You’re running down the road and all of a sudden a car pulls out in front of you. In a split second your brain projects your...
Tiny little jumping spiders, with their magnificent eyes, seem to be able to do something we’d only ever seen before in vertebrates: distinguishing between animate and...
The virus that causes COVID-19 was not the first pathogen to pass from animals to humans, and it surely won’t be the last. And though we...
New technology developed by Japanese engineers has walloped the heck out of the previous data transmission speed record. Along an optical cable more than 3,000 kilometers...
The hunt for a “male birth control pill” is a topic that often grabs attention. But so far no products have been licensed for use, either...
Quantum mechanics deals with the behavior of the Universe at the super-small scale: atoms and subatomic particles that operate in ways that classical physics can’t explain....
A group of scientists may have just pinpointed the location on Mars of a mysterious source of methane, a gas most often produced by microbes –...
In a world first, US researchers have developed a neuroprosthetic device that successfully translated the brain waves of a paralyzed man into complete sentences, according to...
Dogs are born with an innate ability to read human gestures that is not apparent in their closest relative, wolves. Even when wolf puppies are carefully...
A slippery yellow slime that lives in the damp undergrowth is continuing to test our understanding of what it means to make decisions. Physarum polycephalum, AKA...