Life
- Health & Medicine
Making good, brown fat
Researchers find a way to make energy-burning fat out of other types of cells.
- Brain
The colorful world of synesthesia
Explore the sensory explosion experienced by people with this unusual, but not that uncommon nor unwelcome, condition.
- Animals
Puberty gone wild
Humans aren’t the only animals that endure the awkward transition to maturity.
- Animals
A bird that keeps the beat
A dancing cockatoo shows that humans aren’t the only animals with rhythm.
- Life
Life trapped under a glacier
At Antarctica’s Blood Falls, scientists study microbes living in a dark and salty home.
- Fossils
Have shell, will travel
Fossilized tracks left by early land-dwelling animals reveal they brought shells ashore.
- Animals
A grim future for some killer whales
An oil spill off the U.S. coast 20 years ago still threatens marine life.
- Fossils
Meet the new dinos
Fossil finds reveal a tiny, meat-eating species and another with featherlike features.
- Brain
Reading a mind’s memories
By looking at patterns on brain scans, scientists can "see" where a person has been.
- Animals
Bringing fish back up to size
Changing the way we fish may help rescue a population's shrinking fish.
- Animals
Fish needs see-through head
Barreleye peers out at the world like a fighter pilot does through a windshield.
- Animals
Pondering the puzzling platypus
Scientists are studying the mixed-up looking mammal for clues to animal ancestry.
