The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas | Continue reading
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Biologists are building an organism that can shrug off any virus on the planet. Impervious human cells may be next | Continue reading
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Fixing a problem first requires recognizing that it exists | Continue reading
Climate change scares me more than the risk of meltdowns | Continue reading
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Nature's Amy Maxmen reports from the front line of the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Continue reading
Five-month-olds may use chuckles to identify information about social interactions | Continue reading
Physicists are pushing into the extreme ends of the universe as we know it—from invisible particles and colliding massive black holes to the most crushing gravitational forces ever detected and spooky quantum entanglement. The 14-billion-year-old tale of our universe is far … | Continue reading
Geneticist Natalie Telis noticed few women asking questions at scientific conferences. So she publicized the problem and set about to make a change. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Despite progress, many physical scientists from sexual and gender minorities experience exclusion or harassment at work, finds UK survey | Continue reading
Climate change once again received relatively little attention on the debate stage | Continue reading
The slimy stuff has a surprisingly wide array of beneficial biological functions | Continue reading
Males that allow females to take food right out of their mouths are more likely to sire offspring with their dining companions. | Continue reading
Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered drone, will visit Saturn’s largest moon in the 2030s | Continue reading
Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio were the only candidates in the first night in favor of eliminating private insurance | Continue reading
Neural processing centers repeat recent sequences of events to lay down new memories used for abstract thought | Continue reading
For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the location of a nonrepeating fast radio burst, and the result defies expectations | Continue reading
The giant bird roamed Europe more than 2 million years ago | Continue reading
The brief mentions were not enough to satisfy environmentalists pushing for a climate-focused debate | Continue reading
A new approach to water treatment could be cheaper, produce less waste and possibly help fix nitrate pollution in California | Continue reading
By switching fruit flies' sensory neurons on and off with light, scientists were able to create the sensation of sweet or bitter tastes. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Walking without shoes builds calluses, but that does not limit sensation | Continue reading
High waters continue to swamp towns and agricultural fields throughout the Mississippi basin | Continue reading
Psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers are trying to understand humor | Continue reading
Wheat plants' leaves repel water, which creates the perfect conditions for dew droplets to catapult off the leaves—taking pathogenic spores for the ride. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Author and self-described fossil fanatic Brian Switek talks about his new book Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone. | Continue reading
Half a century after the moon shot, we remember how we achieved the impossible—and why we need to do it again | Continue reading
The agenda urges emissions reductions and a guarantee of access to clean water | Continue reading
Special Apollo 11 –themed recommendations from the editors of Scientific American | Continue reading
A new race could be heating up to claim valuable moon terrain amid uncertain laws | Continue reading
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A new finding shows that marshaling facts and identifying an opponent’s rhetorical techniques are effective at dampening a skeptic’s message | Continue reading
Mice fed bacteria isolated from elite athletes logged more treadmill time than other mice that got bacteria found in yogurt. | Continue reading
The chemical these bacteria produce appears to enhance athleticism | Continue reading
Protecting against flood and wind yields higher average benefits than fire and earthquakes | Continue reading
Existing religious and philosophical exemptions endanger public health | Continue reading
NASA’s Curiosity rover reports the highest-ever reading of the gas at the planet’s surface | Continue reading
Climate change and deforestation could also severely fragment much of the forest by 2050, a new model projects | Continue reading
Launching in 2028, the European Space Agency’s newly announced mission will wait in space for an exciting target | Continue reading
A few brief reports about international science and technology from Canada to Kenya, including one about how humans thousands of years ago in what is now Argentina butchered and presumably ate giant ground sloths. | Continue reading
Bacteria live on our eyeballs, and understanding their role could help treat common eye diseases | Continue reading
As widespread as the BMI method of body measurement is, the ever-growing consensus is that this one-size-fits-all approach may be flawed | Continue reading
More than 100 millennia ago, people were roasting tubers—a practice that fueled their bodies and may have aided migrations | Continue reading
Rather than wiping microbes out, antiperspirants and foot powders increased the diversity of microbial flora in armpits and between toes. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
The rule will have little impact on emissions and provides only modest cuts to other harmful pollutants | Continue reading