Did Cheese Lead to Chatter?
Researchers have linked the advent of food processing techniques 8000 years ago to advances in language.
Picky Brits Won’t Eat US Chicken — Should You?
The US is trying to sell chicken to Britain once they leave Europe, but they are resisting. Why?
Science Is Saving Your Morning Joe
Coffee is under threat from climate change and disease. Can scientists save it?
Monopolistic Internet Market Causing America to Fall Behind
Smart Cities wired for super-fast internet are being built in other parts of the world. Will the US compete, and retrofit its old cable systems?
3D Printers Make Practice Hearts For Surgeons
3D printers have hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons — like creating illegal guns. Here’s a use which is nothing but good.
Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
There is nine times more water in the air around us than in all the oceans combined. Technology is helping us harvest it.
How Owning a Boat Can Help You Sleep
Scientists have linked being rocked all night to better sleep, even for grown-ups.
Discovered — A Previously Unknown Structure in the Human Body
Researchers have identified the body’s white-blood-cell freeway system — which could be harnessed to help cure disease.
Bye Bye Fido, Hello Robo
Is a cat or dog too much responsibility for you? Don’t worry — AI robots are replacing them.
Want to Know What Foods Are Healthy for You? Just Ask Your Poop
Breakthrough analytical methods are proving how your microbiome — all the bacteria in your body — can hold the key to health and happiness.
Fighting Algae With Algae — A Problem Solving Itself
It sounds odd, but algae is being harnessed to reduce instances of algal bloom growing in lakes and reservoirs.
Avoid Gaining Weight This Holiday — Do the Cooking
How to not pack on those pesky pie pounds? Get involved with the planning and organizing — that’s sure to slim you right down…
Music Therapy Can Rewire a Broken Brain
When the brain is damaged, patients can regain speech and movement with the aid of Neurologic Music Therapy.
Plants Are Being Engineered to Earn Their Keep
Researchers are working on transferring bioluminescence to trees and giving houseplants traits to warn owners of harm. What could possibly go wrong?
HIV — On the Rise in Eastern Europe and the Deep South
The head of the NIH claims an AIDS-free world is on the horizon. But administering drugs is the easy part — educating populations less so.
How Driverless Cars Could Make Us Better Drivers
Just in time for your journey home from the family jamboree — some sci-fi hope for less stressful journeys in the future.
Paralyzed Patients Walk in Nerve Stimulation Breakthrough
Years after traumatic spinal injury, three people have managed to defy the odds and walk again.
Tiny Robot Drug Delivery Service — Into Your Eyes
Squeamish readers should probably look away now, as this is a story about tiny robots burrowing into eyeballs.
Monsanto’s Roundup Harms Bees, Report Confirms
Roundup has recently been proven to annihilate bees — pollinators essential to food production. Add it to the list of practices that have been killing them for 70 years.
Mass. Gas Grid Blows Up, and Answers Are Elusive
A buildup of pressure is the accepted cause of horrific gas line explosions in three Boston suburbs last week, but officials remain uncertain of what created that danger in the first place.