Health
New Flu Strain Makes Health Experts Nervous
Is a new strain of H3N2 swine flu a danger to public health or just to the reputations of public health experts?
Evolutionary Biology1968 articles archived since 1845
Mind & Brain
Which Nations Conform Most?
An account of Stanley Milgram's experiments from 1962, in which Norwegians and Frenchmen were separately subjected to synthetic group pressure
Mind & Brain
Can't Touch This Feeling
Primates can now move and sense the textures of objects using only their thoughts
Technology
The Whale Song Project (Whale FM)
Help marine researchers answer key questions about how whales communicate
Health
Food We Eat Might Control Our Genes
Scientists find rice microRNA inside human cells
Evolution
Did Sex Emerge from Cannibalism? Sex, Death and Kefir. By Lynn Margulis (1938–2011)
Microorganisms trying to eat one another may have led to the symbiotic merger of their genes—and also started the process of aging
Mind & Brain
The Mind's Hidden Switches
Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, talks about his article in the December issue of Scientific American magazine on epigenetics and human behavior, called "Hidden Switches in the Mind"...
The Sciences
Male Spiders Scam Females with Gift-Wrapped Garbage
Male nursery web spiders lure mates with silk-wrapped offerings, only some of which contain tasty treats. Cynthia Graber reports
The Sciences
What Is It?
Attack of the jellyfish
Biology
New Clues for Improving Antibiotics for Tolerant Bacteria
Some of the ways bacteria protect themselves from antibiotics might be used against them to strengthen existing drugs
Evolution
Mass Appeal: To Study Backward-Finned Dolphin, Researcher Sources Crowds for Cash
One scientist's quest to understand some funky fins taps a new crowdsourcing model to funding his project
The Sciences
Fever Increases Numbers of Immune Cells
Fever can play a variety of roles, such as inhibiting pathogen replication. It also apparently increases the population of killer T cells of the immune system. Christopher Intagliata reports...
Evolution
Ancient Moth Sported a Green Sheen
Analysis of fossilized wing scales suggests insect used bright hues to warn off predators.
The Sciences
Dazzling Miniatures: View Highlights from BioScapes Photo Contest
Small worlds writ large under the microscope
The Sciences
Dazzling Miniatures: View Highlights from BioScapes Photo Contest
Small worlds writ large under the microscope
The Sciences
Predators Can Stress Prey to Death
Safe dragonfly larvae that could sense the presence of their predators had a higher mortality rate than unstressed larvae. Christopher Intagliata reports
The Sciences
Calories Depend on Food Preparation
Mice gained more weight eating cooked food than raw food, indicating that preparing the food gives it a higher effective energy value. Sophie Bushwick reports
Technology
Taut-Tech: Smaller, Softer Artificial Muscles to Help Bring Power to Toys and Cell Phones
Researchers coat electroactive polymers with carbon for fewer moving parts in consumer electronics
Biology
Life's Journey: 5 Tiny Organisms Hitch a Ride on Mission to a Martian Moon [Slide Show]
The Russian sample-return spacecraft will carry a zoo of microbes to Phobos and back to test whether life can survive the interplanetary journey
Space & Physics
Life's Journey: 5 Tiny Organisms Hitch a Ride on Mission to a Martian Moon [Slide Show]
The Russian sample-return spacecraft will carry a zoo of microbes to Phobos and back to test whether life can survive the interplanetary journey
