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Dinosaurs Shook Their Tail Feathers
Some dinosaurs danced and literally shook their tail feathers to attract potential mates, researchers say. It’s long been theorized...
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Bonobos May Prefer Sharing Food With Strangers Over Groupmates
Bonobos will break bread with strangers just to make their acquaintance – and may even be more generous with...
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Guppies Reveal the Evolutionary Cost of Big Brains
There’s a lot to be said for smarts—at least we humans, with some of the biggest brains in relation...
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New Frontier for Topics in Science: Social Media
In surprising numbers, people posted, viewed and searched for science-related topics last year — sharing news from space and...
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Apes Battle for Survival in the Congo
They are known as the hippies of the ape kingdom, a peaceful and affectionate species that is more interested...
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Games for Science
Scientists are using video games to tap the collective intelligence of people around the world, while doctors and educators...
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The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities
The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on...
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Babies Begin Learning Language in the Womb
Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists...
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Earthworms Roped Into Making Quantum Dots
Ordinary earthworms are proving to be a sophisticated chemistry lab: they can put together substances with unusual light-emitting properties....
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Year in Science: 2013 Predictions
Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used...