Robber flies track their beetle prey using tiny microbursts of movement Robber flies visually track their prey before spearing it with their proboscis. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, CC BY-ND...
Why do bees have queens? 2 biologists explain this insect’s social structure – and why some bees don’t have a queen at all The queen, on the...
Biden executive order on sensitive personal information does little for now to curb data market – but spotlights the threat the market poses White House press secretary...
The ‘average’ revolutionized scientific research, but overreliance on it has led to discrimination and injury The average can tell you a lot about a dataset, but not...
The tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit: from fortunetelling and exorcism to herbal medicines An ‘onmyoji,’ an expert on yin and yang, performs divination with counting...
Measles is one of the deadliest and most contagious infectious diseases – and one of the most easily preventable Young children, pregnant people and the immunocompromised are among...
What is IVF? A nurse explains the evolving science and legality of in vitro fertilization Some of the eggs and sperm in these tubes stored in liquid...
We’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958 Frank Rosenblatt with the Mark I Perceptron, the first artificial neural network computer, unveiled in 1958....
Low-level blasts from heavy weapons can cause traumatic brain injury − 2 engineers explain the physics of invisible cell death Low-level blasts can cause physical changes in the...
Mental fatigue has psychological triggers − new research suggests challenging goals can head it off Feeling wiped out by mental work has different causes than what drives...
