Sara Goudarzi

Liberia and Guinea have met a goal of safely isolating 70 percent of those sick with Ebola and burying 70 percent of those who have died.

Some media outlets love to point out such oddities. It makes for great headlines.

Dinosaurs grew quickly, reached sexual maturity early and died young.

Some simple math that sucks the life out of the vampire myth, proving that these highly popular creatures can't exist.

LED tree lights put the green in Christmas.

Location, location, location.

Ranches are important in maintaining the biodiversity of America’s West.

A new study delves into the potential to generate biodiesel at low cost.

Tradable permits, aka cap-and-trades, could preserve land.

Plants warn each other against predators, scientists find.

A new drug test analyzes what communities flush down the toilet.

New study suggests people choose partners with similar body fatness.

A new study finds that some bats burn sugar faster than top-class athletes.

Children favored food in McDonald's wrapping to the same foods and drinks in unbranded packaging.

Renewable energy's land requirement could wreck the environment.

Organic agriculture could work better than conventional farming methods.

We learn better when the material fits into what we already know, a new study suggests.

Out with the old! Too many long-term memories make it hard to filter new information. The finding could help people with short-term memory problems.

Rather than a sticky goo, these tree frogs play with angles to stick and unstick themselves from leaves.

Employers should hire smokers at their own risk, suggest two new studies about job performance.

As people age, neurons have to yell at the muscles to whip them into action, according to a small new study.

That high school math problem with a page-long solution was a cakewalk compared to a recent mathematics answer that would ink an area the size of Manhattan if written out in small print.

Researchers have discovered an unlikely link between patterns of airflow in a jet engine and how the human larynx produces sound.

Eventually, this baby will blow. Meanwhile, the valley is bulging and the mountains, oddly, are shrinking.