Science Update

Louse Bustin’

November 20, 2006

Lice are unlikely to evolve resistence to a new technology for exterminating them.

November 17, 2006

Whiskers could help robots feel, how bee brains are like human brains, a genetic disorder with …

November 16, 2006

A storm in the Gulf of Alaska broke apart a giant iceberg in Antarctica, more than eight thousand …

November 15, 2006

A rare genetic disorder causes patients to be musically and conversationally gifted.

November 14, 2006

DNA is helping to solve one of the greatest puzzles in human history.

November 13, 2006

When it comes to the sense of feel, whiskers are some of nature's greatest creations. Now engineers …

November 10, 2006

How wool is made washable, the earliest horse corral, a parasite that prefers baby boys, a medical …

November 8, 2006

Strong solar flares could render some GPS receivers temporarily useless.

November 7, 2006

A robot snail could make some medical procedures a lot more comfortable.

November 6, 2006

A latent parasitic infection may make a pregnant woman much more likely to have a boy.

November 3, 2006

Kids on caffeine, prairie dogs in love, trading shoelace tags for gold in 15th century Cuba, how …

November 2, 2006

Don't go popping pills yet, but aspirin has some promising anti-cancer properties.