Animals
- Cats recognize their own names
- Lemurs sing in sync — until one tries to go solo
- Watch male cuttlefish fight over a female in the wild
- How velvet worms slime their prey
- Crested pigeons sound the alarm with their wings
- Bedbugs may be into dirty laundry
- Inside the roaring sex lives of howler monkeys
- Tiny structures give a peacock spider its radiant rump
- What’s the Difference Between Poisonous and Venomous Animals?
- Why some mammals kill babies of their own kind
- Friendly neighborhood spiders get bigger in cities
- How to Scare Elephants—For Their Own Good
Biophyiscs
- Dandelion seeds create a bizarre whirlpool in the air to fly
- Peacocks twerk to shake their tail feathers
- Mosquito flight is unlike that of any other insect
- These beetles use surface tension to water-ski
- Scientists Solve Mystery of Birds’ Flying V
- Mosquitoes don’t let the rain get them down
Conservation
- How oral vaccines could save Ethiopian wolves from extinction
- Vaccines may help bats fight white nose syndrome
- Most illegal ivory is less than three years old
- Ebola Vaccine For Chimps Could Help Save Wild Populations
- Cameroon’s elephants hit hard in poaching spike
Infectious diseases
- One number can help explain why measles is so contagious
- What we know about the Ebola outbreak, and the vaccine that might help
- Google and Twitter Help Track Influenza Outbreaks
- Five things to know about Zika
- Zika may have flown to Brazil in 2013
- Tracking the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Through Its Genes
- West Nile Cases Still Climbing As Temperatures Drop
Archaeology
- Ötzi loaded up on fatty food before he died
- CT scans show first X-rayed mummy in new light
- Ancient mud documents the legacy of Rome’s lead pipes
- Evidence of 5,000-year-old beer recipe found in China
- Zigzags on a Shell From Java Are the Oldest Human Engravings
- Murals offer glimpse of Maya astronomy
Paleontology
- Bony head ornaments signal some supersized dinosaurs
- Primitive whales had mediocre hearing
- Sea scorpions slashed victims with swordlike tails
- New fossil suggests echolocation evolved early in whales
- Promiscuous Whales Make Good Use of Their Pelvises
- Meet the Mighty Spinosaurus, the First Dinosaur Adapted for Swimming
- Were People Killing Giant Sloths in South America 30,000 Years Ago?
Plants
- Nightshade plants bleed sugar as a call to ants for backup
- Plant chemical weaponry may offer ammunition for pesticides
- The Chestnut Resurrection
Geology
- How a vaporized Earth might have cooked up the moon
- Robots map largest underwater volcanic eruption in 100 years
- The moon is about as old as we thought it was
- Ancient asteroids kept on coming
- Why the 11 April Sumatran earthquake has scientists puzzled
Chemistry
- FDA bans chemicals in antibacterial soaps
- More Drugs Cited As Risky Mix With Grapefruit
- Dissolved Iron may have been key to RNA-based life
Genetics
- CRISPR used in cows to help fight tuberculosis
- A DNA search for the first Americans links Amazon groups to indigenous Australians
- Could GM mosquitoes pave the way for a tropical virus to spread?
- Five Surprises That Emerged From Monarch Butterfly Genomes
- Scientists Build a Yeast Chromosome From Scratch. Next Up? Designer Genomes
- Hot spring yields hybrid genome
Space
- What Curiosity has yet to tell us about Mars
- In new Cassini portraits, Saturn’s moon Pan looks like pasta
- Enigmatic 17th century nova wasn’t a nova at all
Agriculture
- GM moth trial gets a green light from USDA
- War on weeds loses ground
- California BSE prion comes with a twist
Physics
- Why lattes are less prone to spills than regular coffee
- How Does Nature Carve Sandstone Pillars and Arches?
- Do You Want To Build a Snowman? Physics Can Help
Microbes
- Christina Warinner uncovers ancient tales in dental plaque
- Why salmonella doesn’t want you to poop out
- Don’t judge a whale’s gut microbiome by diet alone
- Pneumonia bacteria attacks lungs with toxic weaponry
- Thousands of Microbe Species Live in This Buried Antarctic Lake
Anthropology
- Human route into Americas traced via trail of bison fossils
- Genome Analysis Links Kennewick Man to Native Americans
- The Oldest Stone Tools Yet Discovered Are Unearthed in Kenya
- Ten Years On, the Flores “Hobbit” Remains an Evolutionary Puzzle
Art Meets Science
- How dollhouse crime scenes schooled 1940s cops
- Chernobyl’s Bugs: The Art And Science Of Life After Nuclear Fallout
- Paleoartist Brings Human Evolution to Life
- The True Inner Beauty of Fishes
- Adventures In Laser Science
- Old time portraits of parasites
- Art and Science Collide in the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
Health
- Stem cells from wisdom teeth could help repair corneas
- Pregnancies Way Past Due Are On The Decline
- Restaurant Meals Mean More Calories and Soda for Kids and Teens
- Performance enhancement: Superhuman Athletes
Brain
- Two sets of neurons turn thirst on and off
- No, “bath salts” won’t turn you into a cannibal
- Scientists Get A New Look At Einstein’s Brain
- Evidence Mounts Linking Head Hits To Permanent Brain Injury
Medicine
- Nose cells fix knee cartilage in human trial
- US National Cancer Institute’s new Ras project targets an old foe
- Pipeline for COPD drugs flows with combination candidates
Technology
- New pelvic exoskeleton stops people from taking tumbles
- This robot grows like a plant
- Stretchy silicon sticker monitors your heartbeat
- I, Robot: Paraplegics Get An Assist
Environment
- The great Pacific garbage patch may be 16 times as massive as we thought
- How Hurricane Katrina Redrew the Gulf Coast
- Ten species that are evolving due to climate change
- Fuel Exhaust Disrupts Scent Signals for Honeybees
- Climate Change Affects Ultrasonic Bat Signals For Better, Worse
- Amazon’s extinction debt still to be paid
Food
- If Genetically Modified Apples Don’t Brown, Can You Tell If They’re Rotten?
- Why Foods Go Together Like ‘Rama Lama Lama, Ke Ding A De Dinga Dong
- An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance
Science policy
- After 40 years, fate of recombinant DNA committee under review
- Study says US conservation agency ignored scientific advice
- Cuts loom for US science
- Tennessee ‘monkey bill’ becomes law
- US agency seeks voluntary restrictions on animal antibiotics
- Chimpanzee bill receives first hearing
Energy
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Helen Thompson 