July 20, 2018

This is the most complete brain map to date, showing every single neuron in a fruit fly’s brain

Mapping the human brain in detail could help to unlock some of its mysteries, but our own brains are such

10 delightful animals you may not have known were necrophiliacs

Ah, nature. So majestic. So serene. So … disturbing. It turns out that there’s a lot of grotesquery in the

Lighting has a smell, and the science behind it is beautiful

You’ve seen it, you’ve heard it, but have you ever smelled it? As bizarre as it sounds, lightning has a

Here’s how NASA’s solar probe is going to touch the Sun without melting

In just a few weeks, NASA is due to launch one of its most ambitious projects yet. The Parker Solar

Leading UK ethics council thinks genetically enhancing babies is ok

It may soon be possible for parents to edit the genes of their children before they’re born, changing their DNA

A genius microscopy method just set a record in imaging individual atoms

Electron microscopes have been capable of taking snapshots of individual atoms for nearly half a century. But we’ve never seen

This armored dinosaur with a spiky head just changed what we know about their migration

Back in 2008, researchers found a weird set of dinosaur fossils in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.

The FDA may have a problem with milk substitutes. Would you drink ‘nut juice’ instead?

All those liquids made out of soy, almond, rice, coconut or oats won’t be called milk anymore, if the US

Neanderthals may have used their stone tools to start fires

Tens of thousands of years before Swiss inventor Karl Elsener attached a corkscrew to a pocketknife, Neanderthals had their own

Remember that giant black Egyptian sarcophagus? They just opened it

Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday pried open a mysterious 30-ton black sarcophagus and found three skeletons, including one that had suffered