WE'RE HOT AND WE'RE COLD
How Heat From The Sun Can Keep Us All Cool
As demand for air conditioning climbs, some see a solution in the very thing that makes us sweat: the Sun.
Nature
BAD NEWS FOR THE LASER CATS
Lasers Activate Killer Instinct In Mice
Researchers have found a switch that seems to turn on a mouse’s predatory instincts. When certain parts of the rodents’ brains were stimulated with light, mice displayed a complex array of hunting activities.
HANS ON EDUCATOR
Three Minutes With Hans Rosling Will Change Your Mind About The World
This physician and epidemiologist has influenced leaders from Melinda Gates to Fidel Castro. Now, he is on a new mission.
SCIENCE IS PRETTY
The Best Science Images Of The Year
Storms, stars and other beautiful snaps.
WASTE TO END WARS?
Can Old Computers Heal The Middle East?
A new effort to clean up toxic electronic waste could unite Israelis and Palestinians.
FUTURE TOLD
The Power Of Prediction Markets
Scientists are beginning to understand why these ‘mini Wall Streets’ work so well at forecasting election results — and how they sometimes fail.
PRIZE FIGHTING
The Drama Behind The Nobel Prize
The latest crop of prize predictions illuminates the century-long struggle to assign credit to individual researchers.
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE?
How To Raise A Genius
A 45-year investigation of exceptional children reveals what it takes to produce super-smart kids.
DISCOUNT DOUBLE-BLIND
Busting The Billion-Dollar Myth
A non-profit organization is proving that developing new drugs doesn't have to cost a fortune. Can its model work more broadly?
STRIKE OF GENIUS
Can We Predict Lightning?
Forecasters hope to predict strikes months or even years in advance.
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
Black Holes Are Not Actually Black
Nothing, not even light, can escape the event horizon of a black hole.
MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER PARTICLES
Why Is There Matter And Not Antimatter? Morphing Neutrinos May Hold The Answer
Why the Universe is filled with matter, rather than antimatter, is one of physics’ greatest mysteries. An experiment in Japan has now glimpsed a possible explanation: subatomic particles called neutrinos might behave differently in their matter and antimatter forms.
NET OVERWORKED
The Bandwidth Bottleneck That Is Throttling The Internet
Researchers are scrambling to repair and expand data pipes worldwide — and to keep the information revolution from grinding to a halt.
RHINO-NO-NO
Plan To Create Australian Rhino Population Comes Under Fire
The team behind a scheme to relocate South African rhinos to Australia isn't backing down after criticisms that removing the rhinos is unnatural.
KEYBOARD WARRIORS
Hacking The Hackers
How do you stop highly sophisticated cyberattacks? By exploiting the less sophisticated hackers behind them.
SAILOR VENUS NOT LOCATED
Rescued Japanese Spacecraft Delivers First Results From Venus
After an unplanned five-year detour, Japan’s Venus probe, Akatsuki, has come back to life with a bang.
CURRENTLY UNFOLDING
Inside The Red-Hot Debate About Transmissible Alzheimer's
A controversial study has suggested that the neurodegenerative disease might be transferred from one person to another through misfolded proteins. Now scientists are racing to find out whether that is true.
IT'S IN ITS GENES
Gene Editing Isn't Even CRISPR's Final Form
The true power of the revolutionary new gene-editing process isn't the ability to hack DNA, but rather to understand the genome itself.
I DREAM OF GENES
Should You Edit Your Children’s Genes?
In the fierce debate about CRISPR gene editing, it’s time to give patients a voice.
NO ONE CAN DETHRONE PARO
Meet The Soft, Cuddly Robots Of The Future
Rigid robots step aside — a new generation of squishy, stretchy machines is wiggling our way.
