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Do Probiotics Make Your Tummy Healthier?
Previous Next Thinkstock Previous Next Thinkstock/iStock "A characteristic of the American dietary that has persisted throughout years has been its abundance." This sentence is no less true today than...
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Nano-Cars to Race Across Atomic Obstacle Course
Previous Next CEMES-CRNS Teams of chemists and materials scientists at Ohio University built the Bobcat Nanowagon for the event. Previous Next Ricardo Tranquilin (Brazil), NanoArt, Cris Or NanoArt is...
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Human-Caused Texas Quakes Common Since 1925
Previous Next Thinkstock Previous Next Sean Gallup/Getty Images Even though some state officials recently denied a link between earthquakes and oil and gas drilling, human-cased tremors have been...
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Can Farmers Fight Air Pollution, Climate Change?
Previous Next Thinkstock Previous Next SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE You've heard a lot about how human-driven climate change will lead to hotter temperatures, cause...
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Robot Insect Parks Under Leaves to Save Energy
Previous Next Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences An electrode patch creates a static charge that allows the micro-drone, weighing just one-hundredth of a gram, to attach to...
View ArticleShould Doctors Get Your DNA?
Inside the basement of a non-descript building in Tartu, Estonia , sits the collected DNA of 52,000 people – 5 percent of this tiny country's entire population. The genetic information was collected...
View ArticleWomen Connect Terror Groups
Terrorist groups have for decades been dominated by men – men who send others to plant bombs (or blow themselves up), raise money, plan operations and recruit new members. Women have been seen as...
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Spider Toxins Light Up Pain Paths
A giant tarantula from Africa has become the latest poisonous critter that scientists believe may hold the key to possible treatments for human neurological disorders that could be controlled with...
View ArticleWhy Didn't the FBI Stop the Orlando Shooter?
Photo: FBI investigators work at the crime scene of a mass shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando , Fla., June 13, 2016. Credit: REUTERS/Jim Young FBI agents twice interviewed Omar Mateen...
View ArticleWill 'No Fly, No Buy' Make a Difference?
The massacre of 49 people in an Orlando nightclub has pushed the U.S. Senate to consider action on gun control, but some experts wonder if the proposed "No Fly, No Buy" legislation will make a dent in...
View ArticleWhen Self-Driving Cars Crash: Who Lives?
Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics state that a robot should never harm nor allow harm to come to a human being. It must also obey orders, except for a conflict with the first law. The third says...
View ArticleTransformer-Like Robots to Rule the Seas
A new class of robots takes inspiration from build-your-own Lego bricks or Transformers , robots that can be assembled in many ways to work together to solve problems or carry out jobs that are too...
View ArticleOrganic Machines Mix Animal, Robot Parts
Bio-engineers have used muscle tissue from rats, mice, as well as some birds to construct part-living, part-mechanical "organic machines," but now they've turned to the lowly sea slug as a model for...
View ArticleHumans Could Live 30 Years Longer
Treating some of the underlying diseases of aging, such as heart disease, cancer or Alzheimer's disease could slow down or delay aging by 20 or 30 years, say medical researchers . Some of these drugs...
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Will US Troops Keep Baltic Peace?
Sgt. Cristian Pensado peers through a copse of scrub pine and brambles at a clearing ahead. He's leading a platoon of 50 U.S. soldiers creeping through an Estonian woodland about 90 miles from the...
View ArticleIs Rio's Olympic Superbug on US Beaches?
Drug-resistant organisms found in the bays and beaches around Olympic host city Rio de Janeiro have Brazilian researchers worried about the health of athletes. But some of these same "superbugs" could...
View ArticleTesla Crashes Mark Turning Point for Driverless Cars
Tesla is feeling the heat after the death of a Florida man driving with the car's Autopilot mode, a second accident near Pittsburgh last week and reports of additional accidents by drivers of the...
View ArticleIris Scans to Replace Fingerprints
FBI officials have scanned the irises of nearly 460,000 people in a pilot program that may soon replace fingerprints. While iris-scanning technology has been around for more than 25 years, it's just...
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Wild Conventions of the Past
With conflicts underway inside the convention hall between factions of GOP delegates and demonstrations on the streets outside, the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland could turn out to be one of...
View ArticleOlympic Doping Has a 50-Year History
Russian athletes got a bit of a pass Tuesday when members of the International Olympic Committee delayed a decision on whether to ban the entire nation from the Rio games after revelations that...
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