Amy Apprill of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studies the tiny microbial hitchhikers that tag along as the humpback whale makes its way across the globe. Learn more: http://specialproject...
Every summer Ashlee Rowe of Michigan State University spends a few weeks in the southwestern United States catching bark scorpions by the light of the moon. These stinging critters carry venom that...
At the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at the University of Montreal, Elizaveta Solomonova is searching for expert dreamers: people who can visit dream land and report back accurately what they see, h...
About 100 years ago, Detroit's Corktown neighborhood was under siege. After building the massive central train station, the city was waiting on a few holdout homes to clear the area in front to mak...
Most of what we know about the universe is carried to us on light waves. But many things are happening that don’t leave clues on the electromagnetic spectrum. That’s where LIGO or the the Laser Int...
Kate Prigge of the Monell Chemical Senses Center studies what things smell like—to us, to canines, and to machines. By using many different sensing technologies, from mass spectrometers to working ...
A team from the London-based Open Space Agency (OSA) has produced the Ultrascope, a downloadable telescope design that can be generated by a 3D printer, be controlled by simple robotics, and captur...
Today's forests have been greatly altered by human activity and face increasing threats from drought, insect infestations and fire. A Special Section in Science this week examines forest health fro...
Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro and her team extract DNA from animal bones buried in the frozen Arctic for millennia. Starting with mere fragments of DNA, the scientists can reconstruct entire ...
An interview with Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator, about the upcoming Pluto encounter, and what is next for his NASA spacecraft. Read more -- http://scim.ag/1Kf4xaT
Fusion has the potential to be the perfect energy source—safe, clean, and limitless—but scientists are struggling to make it work. Now a change of shape may turn the mainstream reactor design, know...
Villagers along the Curanja River in Peru report sightings and even raids by isolated tribespeople who live deep in the Amazon rainforest. Why are these isol...
Scientists have fought for years over where and when dogs arose. Now an unprecedented collaboration of geneticists and archaeologists aims to solve the mystery once and for all!
Robots have captured our collective imagination ever since we first made machines. From robotic soldiers to metal pop stars, meet some of the bots that are blurring the borders between human and machine! Check out Science's robot special issue http://scim.ag/14robots
Ever wonder why it’s so hard to kill a cockroach? It turns out, cockroaches’ bodies are built to squish. Researchers took a close look at how these guys can survive extreme compression and used wha...
Water-walking insects like the water strider have specialized legs that are designed to avoid breaking the surface tension during motion. But how do these insects manage to jump on water where extr...
Researchers have developed a robot that hops like a frog and even one that walks on water—and now they’ve made one that feels. Read more http://scim.ag/1IkDKqp
How do moths track swaying blooms in the dead of night? To find out, researchers film the hovering hawkmoth as it drinks from 3D-printed robotic flowers.
Robotic snakes are great at getting into tight spaces, climbing, and even swimming but until recently they couldn't climb up sandy inclines. Check out what the robo-snake was able to learn from the...
Check out this real-life transformer! Using origami-inspired computing, researchers have built a crawling robot that assembles itself in 4 minutes. Researchers hope the prototype will eventually le...
Flies are some of the most agile and maneuverable creatures on Earth. While some technologies like airplanes and helicopters mimic the motions of flies, researchers have met significant challenges ...