Training A Fish To Survive By Joel N. Shurkin published 7 August 13 Interesting hatchery environments can make smarter, more resilient fish.
Electric Light Bulbs Toy With Our Internal Clocks By Joel N. Shurkin published 1 August 13 Camping helps reset your internal timekeeper.
Scientists Produce False Memories In Mice By Joel N. Shurkin published 26 July 13 False memories can be implanted in mice and presumably humans.
Calories Count Only When Accurately Counted By Joel N. Shurkin published 11 July 13 Two studies suggest that calorie counts may be misleading.
When Temperatures Rise, Evolution Can Come To The Rescue By Joel N. Shurkin published 2 July 13 Fruit flies can develop protection in weeks.
Prehistoric Paintings Reveal Native Americans' Cosmology By Joel N. Shurkin published 25 June 13 Appalachian cave art may explain Mound people's universe.
Butterflies Inspire Anti-Counterfeit Technology By Joel N. Shurkin published 10 June 13 Nanotechnology emulates a South American insect's wings.
Algae Provide A Food Bank For Starving Coral By Joel N. Shurkin published 24 May 13 Cells form crystals to store nitrogen when life gets tough.
Sounds Of The Sea: Stones Clanging By Joel N. Shurkin published 21 May 13 Tide-borne pebbles on the seabed can drown out other ocean noises.
When 'Suckers' Rebuild Eroding Beaches, 'Free Riders' Benefit By Joel N. Shurkin published 8 May 13 One group pays, both profit in computer model.
Tiny Winged Fossil Suggests How Hummingbirds and Swifts Evolved By Joel N. Shurkin published 1 May 13 Rare fossil with its feathers intact found in Wyoming.
Bureaucracy, Meat Production Crucial To Building Egypt's Pyramids By Joel N. Shurkin published 24 April 13 Modern societies would need computers to match the feat.
Game Theory Tackles Rising Health Care Costs By Joel N. Shurkin published 12 April 13 Operations research finds an increasingly important application in health care.
Clamshells Reveal Secrets of Pre-Columbian Society's Decline By Joel N. Shurkin published 4 April 13 Changes in the environment likely made life too difficult for Peru's Moche.
Under Extremes, Big Groups Can Act Like A Force Of Nature By Joel N. Shurkin published 22 March 13 Physics students study how large crowds behave at mosh pits.
Building Unbreakable Codes Beyond The Bounds Of Earth By Joel N. Shurkin published 13 March 13 Quantum satellites may beam down powerful data encryption keys.
Geneticists Estimate Publication Date Of The 'Iliad' By Joel N. Shurkin published 26 February 13 Genomes and language provide clues on the origin of Homer's classic.
Harnessing The Power Of Peacocks To Make Colorful Images By Joel N. Shurkin published 22 February 13 Nanotech material reflects light to display pictures without chemicals or electricity.
Mystery Of New York's Falling Crime Rate Remains Unsolved By Joel N. Shurkin published 13 February 13 Are we just becoming more civilized?
Climate Change May Make Flu Seasons Worse By Joel N. Shurkin published 8 February 13 Warm winters usually make the next year's flu season worse than average.
How Running For Our Lives May Have Made Humans Smarter By Joel N. Shurkin published 28 January 13 Mouse study shows relationship between exercise and size of the brain.
Where Did The Universe's Magnetism Come From? By Joel N. Shurkin published 22 January 13 The first magnetic fields appeared randomly after the Big Bang.
Scientists Discover New Mechanism for Antibiotic Resistance By Joel N. Shurkin published 4 January 13 Tuberculosis-like bacteria survive when not producing a certain protein, in seemingly random pulses.
Human Activity Changing Ocean Salt Levels By Joel N. Shurkin published 27 December 12 The engine of our climate changes seawater chemistry.
What if Reality Was Really Just Sim Universe? By Joel N. Shurkin published 14 December 12 Physicists think of experiment to see if reality is just a computer simulation.
