Science Update

Yawning

July 26, 2007

New evidence may help explain why we yawn.

July 25, 2007

Mexican food may have changed surprisingly little over the last millennium.

July 20, 2007

How the solar system formed, determining the standard for the kilogram, how brain damage affects …

July 18, 2007

A new kind of tripwire uses sound instead of string or laser beams.

July 16, 2007

Scientists are setting a new standard for weight.

July 13, 2007

The importance of bubbles, living on icebergs, family-oriented plants, eye medicine from oven …

July 12, 2007

Plants are more generous to kin than strangers.

July 11, 2007

Cleaning chemicals could help treat eye disease.

July 9, 2007

Bubbles play an important role in the exchange of gas between the ocean and the air.

July 6, 2007

Listening to muscles, yoga may stave off depression, a blood-based bandage, a protein inhibits aging …