All Stories by Emily Sohn
- Tech
Butterfly wings and waterproof coats
Inspired by nature, scientists have come up with clever new designs for waterproof coatings.
- Animals
Ant invasions change the rules
Ant invaders may wreck the rules by which entire communities of their peers work.
- Health & Medicine
Tapeworms and drug delivery
Scientists are learning from tapeworms how to develop more effective medicines.
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- Animals
Fish nests with pizzazz
Fish known as three-spined sticklebacks go gaga over decorating their nests.
- Animals
Lucky survival for black cats
A cat's black color may date back to a mutation that also protected the felines from diseases a long time ago.
- Space
Phantom Energy and the Big Rip
Weird stuff called dark energy could push the universe toward a runaway expansion and ultimate demise about 21 billion years from now.
- Space
Black holes that burp
Some black holes in outer space may actually spit out as much material as they suck in.
- Environment
The down side of keeping clean
Chemicals we use to clean and disinfect could be damaging the environment by killing off algae at the food chain's base.
- Environment
Less mixing can affect lake’s ecosystem
Warming a large lake can cut microorganism populations and disturb its food chain.
- Plants
Slower growth, greater warmth
A shift toward slower-growing trees might make Earth's climate warm up even faster.
