Month: November 2012

Greenland’s viking settlers, the Norse, disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from Greenland about 500 years ago….

Many of the world’s most unfamiliar species are just sitting around on museum shelves collecting…

Researchers have identified a genetic factor that prevents blockages from forming in blood vessels, a…

A new tool for neuroscientists delivers a thousand pinpricks of light to individual neurons in…

Mosquitos have the remarkable ability to fly in clear skies as well as in rain,…

Owls have the uncanny ability to fly silently, relying on specialized plumage to reduce noise…

Sound waves are commonly used in applications ranging from ultrasound imaging to hyperthermia therapy, in…

A new approach to invisibility cloaking may one day be used at sea to shield…

A drug commonly prescribed to help patients sleep in hospitals has been associated with an…

As a corporate responsibility consultant, one expert publicly criticized Apple’s recent appointment of another man…