If this photo were a genetics lesson, could you spot what's [...]
Wanna know what movies might get your neighbor's vote? A New York Times interactive has a breakdown of top Netflix rentals by ZIP [...]
Right here, right where we live, are creatures so extraordinarily spooky, in landscapes so deeply strange, they might as well be on the Planet [...]
This satellite view of 2,600 acres in Tucson, Ariz., lays bare the soul of an artist in an unlikely [...]
So Volkswagen has this new concept car — give it two gallons of gas, and it will go 416 miles without a stop. But German engineers, meet your fuel-efficiency master: the [...]
Part of the art of being a field scientist in Africa is to make the animals think you're not watching them. So Barb Smuts had to learn to make herself very dull, very uninteresting, very boring, very shy — and to never look a gorilla in the eye. Then one day, the strangest thing [...]
Each New Year's, Christmas and birthday seems to come round faster every year. But why is it that we feel time goes by faster as we get older? Scientists dissect one of life's intriguing [...]
The reason for a lack of willpower may be that you're working your prefrontal cortex too hard. If you give it too many jobs to do, it gets tired, calls it a day and gives into [...]
Have you ever wished you could time travel? Now you can! Kind [...]
A biologist reflects on an awe-inspiring experience in Africa, when a group of baboons united in some kind of amazing "mystical" [...]
As gentlemen may have noticed, flies are turning up in urinals with increased frequency. Not real ones, but lifelike images carefully positioned in the porcelain bowl. It seems the very presence of this insect drastically reduces what's politely called "spillage." But why [...]
Lou Padilla is pretty good at fixing things. So when he broke his ankle, Padilla decided to set it himself. The Brooklyn locksmith didn't have health insurance, and he says he doesn't need it. In this series of stories, Padilla — along with a farmer and a young couple – explain how they get by without the safety net of [...]
Desert ants have a nifty way of finding their way back home after a foray out of the nest to find food — they count their steps. To prove it, some scientists devised a creative experiment that showed just how the little guys do it. It's already known that ants use celestial clues to establish the general direction home, but how do they know exactly the number of steps to take that will lead them right to the entrance of their [...]
You think you know why leaves fall off trees. Well, you're wrong. It's not the wind. It's not the cold. Because leaves aren't the brightest bulbs in the world, the tree has to make an executive decision come [...]
If flu vaccines are in short supply, it's especially important to know who's getting sick and where. At NPR.ORG/health, there's a video that shows how a virus invades the [...] |
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