Fish Capable of Judgment Calls In a report in the journal Behavioral Ecology, fish learned from watching other fish find food and comparing their success rates. Cynthia Graber reports. [The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] Theres p...
Tools Are Body Parts to Brain In a report in the journal Current Biology, researchers claim that the brain interprets a tool, such as a hammer, as a temporary extension of your physical body. Karen Hopkin reports [The following is an exact transcrip...
Subways Loudest Transit Option in NYC In a report in the American Journal of Public Health performed in New York City, subways were the loudest mass transit option, with potentially hearing-damaging noise levels. Steve Mirsky reports. [The following...
Window Stickers Lead To Stretchy Electronics Engineers would love to embed flexible electronics into things like paper, or surgical gloves or conventional clothing. But the wiring usually gets twisted and damaged. Now MIT researchers have found insp...
Energy Secretary: We Need New Agriculture Revolution In his CalTech commencement address on June 12, Nobel physicist and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu called for a new agricultural revolution, led by scientists. Heres a clip from last weeks CalTech...
Molting Molds Flying Bird Size Limit A study in the journal Public Library of Science Biology finds that it's the rate at which flying birds can replace their flight feathers that determines how big they can grow and still get off the ground. Karen...
Earth's Fried Far-Future Postponed A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds at least a billion years to the already far-future estimate of when the sun will make Earth too hot to handle. Karen Hopkin reports. [The followin...
The Rain's Maintained Speed Strain Is Now Explained A study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that some raindrops are falling faster than they should be, which means meteorologists may be overestimating the total amount of rainfall....
When an Iraqi reporter threw his shoe at President Bush, University of Washington neurologists were delighted. But not because of politics. The fling was just real-world evidence of a theory they were testing. As the shoe flew, Bush ducked while Ira...
What do a hummingbird, a moth, and a maple tree have in common? They all use a similar trick to fly. Okay, okay, a maple tree doesnt fly. But its seeds kind of do. Maples make those little whirlybird seeds you see spiraling down in droves each sprin...
