Spider Glue: An Eco-Friendly Alternative?

Two newly discovered proteins in spider webs could one day be used in a natural adhesive.

By Anna Rothschild | Posted October 29, 2009

Darwin’s Rottweiler and Dawkins’s Dogma

Is evolution a theory or fact?

By Ferris Jabr | Posted October 22, 2009

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Recognizes Ribosomes

Wait, isn’t that biology?

By Alyson Kenward | Posted October 9, 2009

Illuminating the Mind

How an experimental mind-control technology could hasten the coming of the Singularity.

By Ferris Jabr | Posted

Big Bright Green Songbird Machine

A new tool allows scientists to study how the brain grows and develops.

By Emily Elert | Posted October 6, 2009

Call Me Fishmeal

Biologists discover new worm species on submerged whale carcasses.

By Mara Grunbaum | Posted October 4, 2009

Researcher Gets His Game On

How one scientist uses the Xbox 360 to study the human heart.

By Ferris Jabr | Posted September 23, 2009

Don’t Stand So Close to Me

Scientists pinpoint the region of the brain that controls your comfort zone.

By Crystal Gammon | Posted September 12, 2009

Biologists Discover How Prehistoric Flying Reptiles Stayed Aloft

By Lindsey Konkel | Posted February 20, 2009

Faking Cleverness and My Week of Nobel Laureates

By Robert Goodier | Posted February 6, 2009