Humans are born with instincts for crying and smiling, but not for kissing. Sometime in the…
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This spider pretends to be an ant, but not well enough to avoid being eaten
If Spiderman and Antman took their DNA and mixed it together in a petri dish, the…
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A ‘butterfly tree of life’ reveals the origins of these beautiful insects
Up until 100 million years ago, butterflies were night creatures. Only nocturnal moths were living on…
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This ‘blue dragon’ sliced through the ancient Pacific with paddle-like fins
About 72 million years ago, a mosasaur the size of a modern great white shark terrorized…
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This teenage tyrannosaur had a stomach full of dino drumsticks
The stomach of the teenage tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus libratus is a gift that keeps on giving. A…
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Robot plants could be used to grow infrastructure in space from scratch
This article was original featured on MIT Press.This article is excerpted from Dario Floreano and Nicola…
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This AI-powered brain scanner can paraphrase your thoughts
Researchers at the University of Texas Austin have developed a breakthrough “semantic decoder” that uses artificial…
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A scientific exploration of big juicy butts
BUMS. HEINIES. FANNIES. DERRIERES. Few muscles in the human body carry as much cultural clout as…
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What head lice can tell us about human migration
Reviled the world over for making our scalps itch and rapidly spreading in schools, lice have…
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When a Jurassic giant died, predatory dinos probably feasted on the carcass
Scavenging has been maligned as a food gathering strategy and is generally associated with animals like…
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This Jurassic-era ‘sea murderer’ was among the first of its kind
With its 19 feet-long torpedo-shaped body and long teeth the newly-described Lorrainosaurus was a fearsome mega…
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Giving drones inflatable suits could help them survive crash landings
When entering into disaster scenarios, robots still have a major downside—their inability to recover when they…
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