How to Make a Consciousness Meter

Zapping the brain with magnetic pulses while measuring its electrical activity is proving to be a reliable way to detect consciousness

Inside Mount Saint Helens, Scientists Find Clues to Eruption Prediction

From underneath Mount Saint Helens, a new picture of volcanic “plumbing” is emerging, with important clues for predicting deadly eruptions

The Trouble with Fish Stocking

Stocking rivers and lakes with game fish is good for anglers. But it is wreaking ecological havoc

Capturing Floodwaters in Wet Years Could Help California Survive Drought Years

New tactics for capturing floods and surviving droughts could help communities across California and the world

Beautiful Physics: The Search for New Particles at LHCb

The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has seen hints of new particles that may point the way toward a higher theory of physics

Bacteria Gang Together in Killer Biofilms, but Scientists Can Disrupt Gang Communications

Biofilms—3-D mats of bacteria—kill as many people as cancer does and fight off antibiotics. Now scientists are turning biofilms’ own weapons against them

A Fantastic Journey through Cosmic Scales

A new, epic voyage through all known scales of reality charts the outer limits of existence, from the edge of the observable universe to the subatomic realm

How to Read Old MS Word Files When Word Says You Can't