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16 Jan 2012, 10:05 pm
S&P's granting of triple AAA ratings to companies and investment vehicles that turned into junk ratings caused $2 trillion in losses to everyone that relied on them-basically, everyone. [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 9:11 am
The origins of Europeans have come into sharp focus in the past year as researchers have sequenced the genomes of ancient populations, rather than only a few individuals. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 8:34 am
Every so often, the fossil record shows, ecological disasters wipe large numbers of species off the face of Earth. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 5:21 pm
“What we’re talking about here is a means of mind control on a massive scale that there is no precedent for in human history. [read post]
18 Apr 2015, 9:10 am
“It’s an incredible finding that suggests that dogs have hijacked the human bonding system,” says Brian Hare, an expert on canine cognition at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the work. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:19 am
On average, people receiving the placebo were willing to forfeit about 55 cents per shock to avoid harming themselves, and 69 cents to avoid harming others. [read post]
28 May 2016, 10:56 am
Add one more animal to the list of species thought to grieve their dead: wild snub-nosed monkeys. [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 2:57 pm
Back in the 1950s in a weird, vampiric experiment, scientists first showed that connecting the circulatory systems of old and young mice seems to rejuvenate the more elderly animals. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 4:05 pm
Like people, cockroaches like to hang out together, especially when they have nothing else to do. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 5:20 pm
Even the sweetest relationships can turn sour. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 7:14 am
The two animals at the forefront of this discussion are the woolly mammoth, a hairy, close relative of the elephant that lived in the Arctic, and the passenger pigeon, a small, gray bird with a pinkish red breast once extremely common in North America. [read post]
21 May 2021, 6:11 pm
Eight children hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia several years ago had evidence of infections with a novel coronavirus similar to one found in dogs, a research team reports today. [read post]
17 Aug 2013, 10:05 pm
Your boat breaks down in the middle of nowhere. [read post]
8 Jul 2015, 9:20 am
Whether they're from humans, whales, or elephants, the brains of many mammals are covered with elaborate folds. [read post]
22 Oct 2016, 6:07 pm
A few weeks later, however, Earthman was speeding up a 3.2-kilometer hill with 20 other young participants in a study, called AltitudeOmics, that has now produced a dozen publications. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 9:58 pm
“Although [the Amazon and Sahara] seem so different, a lot of the questions are actually very similar,” says David Mattingly, an archaeologist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 8:41 am
To crack the mystery of why and how people around the world came to believe in moralizing gods, researchers are using a novel tool in religious studies: the scientific method. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 9:40 am
"If this is correct it's probably the theoretical computer science result of the decade," says Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist and blogger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. [read post]
28 May 2016, 10:47 am
About 3200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 12:00 pm
Daniel N. [read post]
