That ridiculous voice we use to talk to dogs? They actually love it
How to talk to puppers 101.
Efforts to pull the northern white rhino from the brink of extinction intensify as the last living male declines in health
Things are not looking good for the subspecies.
Dogs create a mental image of what they’re sniffing for
Pupper power!
Without tree husks to house them, Europe’s beetles are dying out
Sometimes not tidying up can be a good thing.
Two raven lineages that tied the knot yield evidence of ‘speciation reversal’
Birds of a feather... merge together.
‘Self-aware’, predatory, digital slug mimics the behavior of the animal it was modeled on
Printing brains on PC circuits seems to be all the rage nowadays.
Smiles can both induce and reduce stress — it depends on how you wield it
Use this power for good!
Silicon-based life on Earth? Only artificially, so far — but maybe natural on other planets
A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose...
We’ve just found the earliest traces of hydrogen, showing when the first-ever stars ignited
We've learned a lot about the early universe.
Death creeps through the brain as a “spreading wave” of silence and inactivity
In a dark way, these findings are quite soothing.
Put your phone away if you want to enjoy your night out, study suggests
Unlike apps, happiness doesn't seem to come through your phone.
Massive flare in the Proxima Centauri system puts its habitability into question
Flares like this one are powerful enough to turn the planet into a hellscape.
Researchers create gigantic atom filled with 100 other atoms
No fat shaming in physics!
Chaotic cities are cooler than orderly ones, researchers report
Being science, 'cool' here refers to temperatures.
One tiny mutation could triple the world’s production of grain
Not bad for one gene.
In 2016, fishing ships cast their nets on over 55% of the ocean surface
That's a lot of fishing.
The Hjertefølgers’ cob house might just be the coziest place in the subarctic
Please adopt me I wanna be part of this!
External temperature also influences our circadian rhythms, study reports
It's not just low light that makes us sleepy.
NASA could have an orbiting moon base by 2023
It's like an ISS, but for the Moon!
Plants’ climate-compensation systems will be overwhelmed by climate change
Climate change could cause an ecological break-down.
Incredible farm in Michigan becomes the world’s second ‘Living Building’
Can I rent a room?
Debunking some misconceptions about evolution
Sometimes, it's good to remember that even evolution doesn't want you to be perfect. Good enough is just fine.
Newly-developed 3D printing method uses cells, biomolecules to recreate tissues
The day when you can download and 3D print a sandwich inch ever closer.
Coffee farming “can be a win-win for birds and farmers”, paper finds
It will keep you civil on a Monday morning and keep some bird species happy -- it's coffee!
Copper-coated uniforms for medical staff could help shred bacteria in hospitals
It's a pretty metal solution.
Man-made: we’ve domesticated our own species
Does this make us pets?
More gender equal countries have fewer women in STEM, paradoxically
A new paper tries to explain this discrepancy.
Stress ruins memory, but you can outrun this effect
Stress and memory don't mix very well.
Physical exercise is more important for health than weight, study reports
Being healthy doesn't mean losing weight.
Fairly Tradeable: Corporate sustainability limited in both scope and outcome, analysis reveals
The good news is that consumer involvement is very effective in increasing sustainability.
Alcohol makes you aggressive by impairing the polite parts of your brain
Ever heard the idiom "as peaceful as a drunkard"? No? Here's why.
Far-ultraviolet lamps could eradicate airborne viruses in public spaces — with no risk to us
It can't go through our skin, but it will wreck viruses and bacteria.
Book review: ‘Ten Great Ideas about Chance’
Humans are inherently ill-suited to assess odds -- this book aims to help.
Sick bees take care of themselves by eating better quality food
Sadly the study makes no mention of chicken soup.
Looking to put a sub on Titan, NASA recreated its methane oceans in Washington
Titan's "water" isn't even water.
Strong as steel and lightweight? Must be superdense wood
Wooden't you try this building material?
A worm’s brain was uploaded to a hard drive and put to the test — without a single line of code
The distinction between brain and computer has never been blurrier.
Solar fuels just years away, propelled by breakthrough in catalyst research
Research doesn't have to be glamorous or flashy to be significant.
9 Valentine Gift Ideas to Bring Out the Geek in You
Geek is good!
8 Biology-inspired Gift Ideas for your Valentine!
Celebrate this day biology's way!
Porsche is doubling its investment in electric and hybrid vehicles
A move in the right direction by Porche and its parent company Volkswagen.
The greatest Viking invasion of Britain never left — it got buried there, new research finds
The site was first found in the 70's, but couldn't be accurately dated until now.
Conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine sentiments go hand-in-hand
Somehow not very surprising.
Rats trade with each other and are surprisingly fair, research finds
Hey, kid! Psss, kid! Wanna buy some cheese?
Humanity killed off mega-herbivores — but climate change might warrant bringing them back
Turns out eating all the mammoth wasn't that good of an idea.
Research into nugget-forming bacteria paves the way to better gold extraction methods
It's not every day you meet someone who poops solid gold -- but today is one such day.
Jodrell Bank, Earth’s oldest radio telescope, nominated as UNESCO Site
The site has had an immense role to play in our understanding of the universe.
We owe the shape of our jaws, at least in part, to our ancestors’ love of cheese
Cheese -- it literally made your bones what they are.
Cosmonaut blood reveals that our immune systems grind to a halt in space
This is definitely Not Good™.
Our brains resemble those of our friends, new research shows
Friends think alike.