October 24, 2012
How Slight Sleep Deprivation Could Add Extra Pounds
New analysis shows that metabolic effects caused by even a couple nights with less than six hours of shut-eye may feed obesity
Stories by Katherine Harmon
BiologyOctober 24, 2012
Fish Shoots Down Prey with Super-Powered Jet
HealthOctober 18, 2012
A Simple Way to Reduce the Excess of Antibiotics Prescribed to Kids
HealthOctober 18, 2012
Can a Burst of UV Bust Hospital-Borne Infections?
EvolutionOctober 17, 2012
Ancient Armored Fish Had First Bad Bite
EvolutionOctober 17, 2012
Deadly Octopus Flashes Bright Blue Warning with Super-Reflective Skin
HealthOctober 11, 2012
Cell Phone Data Could Help Clip Malaria Spread
EvolutionOctober 10, 2012
Complex Brains Existed 520 Million Years Ago in Cockroach Relative
EvolutionOctober 9, 2012
Can Octopuses Help Us Make Better Kindles?
HealthOctober 4, 2012
Free Birth Control Access Can Reduce Abortion Rate by More Than Half
EvolutionOctober 4, 2012
Baby Mice Born from Eggs Made from Stem Cells
EvolutionOctober 3, 2012
Super-Toxic Snake Venom Could Yield New Painkillers
EnvironmentSeptember 27, 2012
Silk-Based Electronics Dissolve on Cue for Vanishing Medical Implants
HealthSeptember 26, 2012
Can We Shrink Portions (and the Obesity Epidemic) with Psychology?
HealthSeptember 25, 2012
Can Personal Technology Stop the Obesity Epidemic?
HealthSeptember 25, 2012
Novel Food Labels and Dinner Plates Could Improve Our Diets
September 21, 2012
Herbal Menopause Supplement Often Contains Other Species, DNA Bar Coding Reveals
Genetic analyses found herbs similar to black cohosh were being sold in commercial preparations of the popular remedy, possibly explaining mixed results and casting doubt on supplement label accuracy
EvolutionSeptember 20, 2012
Bumblebees Quickly Learn Best Paths to Sweet Flowers
EvolutionSeptember 19, 2012
Oyster Genome Pries Open Mollusk Evolutionary Shell
EvolutionSeptember 18, 2012
Surgery for Extreme Obesity Produces Long-Term, Dramatic Weight Loss and Diabetes Remission
EvolutionSeptember 10, 2012
How Do You Count Giant Octopuses? Color-Code Them with Silicone [Video]
September 7, 2012
What Caused the Yosemite Hantavirus Outbreak?
With the Yosemite tourists having died from this normally high-altitude illness, we spoke with an infectious disease expert to see if hantavirus could spread to other areas of the country
HealthSeptember 5, 2012
"Junk" DNA Holds Clues to Common Diseases
With the new annotation of the human genome, researchers are finding that most of the code between genes is controlling crucial functions for life and health
EvolutionSeptember 1, 2012
Fish Swap Dinner for Sex
Unendowed males lure females with treats