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Biological puzzles abound in an up-close look at a human brain

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science news By Laura Sanders     It’s a bit like seeing a world in a grain of sand.     Except the view, in this case, is the exquisite detail inside a bit of →

Here’s how ice may get so slippery

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​science news​​​ By Emily Conover     The surface of ice is a slippery subject.     For more than 160 years, scientists have been debating the quirks of ice’s →

Human body lice could harbor the plague and spread it through biting

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​science news​​​ By Tina Hesman Saey     Rats and their fleas take the rap for spreading the plague, but lice that infest people may share the blame.     Human →

Burning the stomach lining reduces the ‘hunger hormone’ and cuts weight

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​science news​​​ By Meghan Rosen     An experimental weight loss procedure cranks up the heat to dial down hunger.     Blasting a patch of patients’ stomach →

The heart plays a hidden role in our mental health

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​science news​​​ By Laura Sanders     Everyone knows that the brain influences the heart.     Stressful thoughts can set the heart pounding, sometimes with →

The universe may have a complex geometry — like a doughnut

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science news​​​​ By Emily Conover     The cosmos may have something in common with a doughnut.     In addition to their fried, sugary goodness, doughnuts are →

A new gel stops mice from getting too drunk

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​science news​​​ By Darren Incorvaia     Wouldn’t it be nice if you could stave off the miserable effects from a night out drinking by simply popping a pill? Researchers are now →

50 years ago, phantom pain was blamed on misfiring nerves

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​science news​​​ By Helen Bradshaw      Nearly everybody who has had a leg or arm amputated sometimes experiences the sensation or feeling that they still have their missing →

Chronic asthma could be caused by cell overcrowding in the airways

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​science news​​​ By Monique Brouillette     Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an →

A weaker magnetic field may have paved the way for marine life to go big

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​science news​​​ By Katherine Kornei     Earth’s magnetic field protects life from harmful cosmic radiation. But sometime between about 590 million and 565 million years ago, that →

Want to see butterflies in your backyard? Try doing less yardwork

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​science news​​​ By Susan Milius     Making the world safer for butterflies can be as easy as doing a bit of nothing.     Letting some part of a yard go unmown →

Belugas may communicate by warping a blob of forehead fat

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​science news​​​ By Elizabeth Anne Brown     The beluga whale wears its heart on its sleeve — or rather, its forehead.     Researchers have created a visual →

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