Americans aren’t only wasting the most food — they’re also throwing out the best bits
The worst of both worlds.
Carnegie U software lets anyone design and build a bot — that works
Click, print, ready!
Researchers took a nanoscale snap of a living cell membrane for the first time in history
They had to develop a whole new method to do it.
Power to the subpixel: new tech could triple the resolution of LCD screens
Hope my internet connection can keep up. Fingers crossed.
Urban heat island effect could almost triple the cost of climate change in cities, burn economies to a crisp
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fireeee.
Learning to read changes your brain from stem to cortex, study finds
The more you do it, the better it gets.
For the first time ever, we’ve seen a black hole being silently born — no supernova required
Why blow up when you can mass up?
Ancient climate change turned whales into Earth’s largest organisms ever , study reports
Do you think they get self-conscious about their weight?
Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
The best of the best.
Meet Tolley, the single most adorable robot you’ll ever see ever — who’s also a breakthrough
Cute + science = yesplease.
The first hominids might have evolved in Europe, fossil jaw suggests
Emphasis on might.
Warm-bloodedness shown to be millions of years older than we thought — maybe as old as the dinosaurs
The case for dinosaur warm bloodedness keeps getting stronger.
Even ‘dumb AI’ can supercharge human activity and efficiency, study reprots
Two heads are better than one.
We’ve (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios
Can your Internet landline do this? No.
Neuron cluster which can override sleep identified in the fruit fly brain
95% of students like this bundle of neurons.
Scientists find the step-by-step process by which your shoelaces come undone
Trying to walk it off only makes it worse.
Early farmers probably didn’t really know how to select crops — but they were very lucky
Domestication could've well happened on its own.
Female mice birth and nurse healthy offspring after being grafted with prosthetic ovaries
That's a pretty impressive print.
Why 7.5 billion people on Earth is bad news
We are legion!
Novel 3D printing method makes furniture in vats of gel within minutes
I like everything about this!
Your robot always dropping stuff? Try these gecko-inspired pads
A gripping tale.
Mussel-glue-and-protein balm could spell the end of scars forever
Sadly, not very effective against emotional scars.
Alcohol doesn’t change our personality as much as we blame it
This doesn't mean you can't keep blaming it.
Feeling down? Walk it off! No really, walking is all you have to do
Who said you can't run from your problems?
Watch the (2nd) biggest book in the world get digitized, all thanks to the British Library
It's not the size of the book that matters, it's how you digitize it.
Long-term exposure to mictrogravity can lower physical fitness down by half
And exercise doesn't fix it.
Want better, cheaper health care? Pay doctors a flat salary, not per procedure, behavioral economists say
Doctors? Having conflicts of interests? Can't be.
CERN celebrates completion of Liniac 4, its most powerful linear accelerator
In about three years from now, the LHC will receive its most powerful linear accelerator yet.
Tanzania’s blood-red lake snapped from space by NASA
Pretty. And pretty deadly.
Biology imparts us with instinctive color categories — culture only shapes them
Color is hardwired into the brain.
Our perception of a character comes not from their actions, but from how they compare to others
There's a thin line between hero and villain -- one we redraw quite liberally.
Silica rains helped form Earth’s crust four and a half billion years ago
Talk about hailstone, right?
It’s not just the poor: all Americans eat fast food about as often
Bite into this study.
Want to work on NASA’s software and get paid for it? You’ll love this challenge
Enter the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.
Speech and language deficits aren’t to blame for autistic children’s tantrums
Knowing what it's not brings us one step closer to understanding what it is.
Each language you speak in alters your perception of time, study finds
The pen is mightier than the clock too, it seems.