a1 There’s a genetic explanation for why warmer nests turn turtles female Toastier nest temperatures, rather than sex chromosomes…
a1 Satellite data backs theory of North Korean nuclear site collapse A new analysis of satellite images and seismic waves fr…
a1 Consumer DNA testing promises more than it delivers In Nevada, 40,000 people are stepping up to the cutting…
a1 What genetic tests from 23andMe, Veritas and Genos really told me about my health Direct-to-consumer genetic testing first came on the ma…
a1 ‘Outbreak’ puts the life cycle of an epidemic on display In 1918, a pandemic of Spanish flu killed as much as 5 …
a1 In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics On a warm summer evening, a visitor to 1920s Göttingen,…
a1 This heavy element has a football-shaped atomic nucleus A heavy element’s nucleus is all bent out of shape. Nob…
a1 See this star nursery shine in a stunning new infrared image New tech is revealing how young stars have an outsized …
a1 Bird poop helps keep coral reefs healthy, but rats are messing that up When invasive rats chow down on island seabirds, coral …
a1 How a variation on Botox could be used to treat pain Painkillers crafted with a part of the wrinkle-smoothin…
a1 One particle’s trek suggests that ‘spacetime foam’ doesn’t slow neutrinos An intergalactic race between light and a bizarre subat…
a1 How a slime mold near death packs bacteria to feed the next generation In the final frenzy of reproduction and death, social a…
a1 A new Ebola species has been found in bats in Sierra Leone A new species of Ebola virus has been discovered in bat…
a1 The first detailed map of red foxes’ DNA may reveal domestication secrets For nearly 60 years, scientists in Siberia have bred si…
