You are what you eat, the old expression goes. But it leaves out one crucial detail. We don't dine alone. We dine with trillions of friends. Jeff Gord...
Human parents usually have one or sometimes two offspring at a time, and when babies get delivered we pour all our energy into child rearing. But othe...
Global warming deniers love to point to cold or snow as evidence against climate change. Like Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. Remember last year, when ...
The little brown bat was once abundant in the eastern U.S. But within the last 15 years, a fungus called Pseudogynmoascus destructans infiltrated a ca...
Tens of trillions of microbes call our living bodies home. But when we die? The first thing that happens is basically ecosystem collapsewhere you have...
Pregnancy brings big physical changes to a woman's body. But what three neuroscientists were more interested in was, what does it do to the womans bra...
In March 2015, the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed the jet into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 others. Later on, investigators f...
You may have spotted V-shaped squadrons of geese heading south this fall. But for many migrantslike smaller songbirdsnighttime is the right time, when...
Babies benefit from breast-feedingthey have a lower risk of infections, vomiting and diarrhea and less of a chance of later developing adult onset dia...
Advocates for self-driving cars love to tout the benefits the cars would bring, such as fewer accidents and less congestion. Another alleged value of ...
