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Can People Really Learn to 'Speed Read'?The promise of learning to read significantly faster is intriguing. But true speed reading isn't supported by the science.
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Why Do Babies Lose Their Hair?Whether your baby has a thick mop of hair or just a few strands, most of it will fall out before she's six months old.
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Why Don't Newborns Have Tears or Sweat?A baby's ability to sweat and produce tears develop weeks after birth.
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Proton-Size Droplets of Primordial Soup May Be the Tiniest in the UniverseResearchers may have created the tiniest droplets in the universe, using a soupy mix of ultrahot particles that mimics conditions in the moments after the Big Bang.
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Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant AtomsMysterious quantum stars that act like single, monster atoms could form surprisingly quickly.
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Could This Slimy Corn 'Fix' One of Earth's Biggest Pollution Problems?Nitrogen fixation is a process that plants use to take nitrogen from the air and transform it into a usable form such as ammonia or nitrate.
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Why Does the Earth Rotate?You can thank the solar system's head-spinning early years for Earth's rotation.
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Weird, 570-Million-Year-Old 'Leaf' Fossil Is Actually from an AnimalNo it's not a leaf or a long-lost kingdom of life. It's a funny, leaf-like animal.
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Oldest Evidence for Life on Land Unearthed in South AfricaAbout 3.22 billion years ago, ancient mats of microbes clung to pebbles in an ancient riverbed.
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Weird Paradox Says 2 Losses Equals a Win. And It Could Lead to Fast Quantum Computers.Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.
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Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding WormholesThe echoes of colliding wormholes would look different than the signal from merging black holes.
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Dark Matter May Have an Electric ChargeThe mysterious substance may not just interact with other matter through gravity.
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Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear ReactorWhistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.
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Where is the center of the universe?It's a trick question.
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Physicists Just Measured One of the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature. Now They're Bummed.Physicists are looking for signs of new physics, but the new measurement showed no signs of it.
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Wormholes Could Cast Weird Shadows That Could Be Seen by TelescopesWormholes could leave a signature smooshed shadow that future telescopes could detect.
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Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists ThoughtOne key ingredient for life may be less abundant in our galaxy than scientists thought.
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New Theory Explains Mysterious Growth of Metal StrandsMetal whiskers wreak havoc on electronics, but their origin has remained unknown.
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Meteorites Help Reveal How Mars Lost Its WaterAfter initial water escaped into space, the rest froze.
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Climate Alters Mongolian Past And PresentTree-ring data sheds light on climate change's historic and modern impact.
