Science Update

Hot Chilies

August 20, 2001

The evolutionary basis for why chili peppers are hot

August 17, 2001

Tropical wasps bite each other to divide labor, may be form of insect communication, not bullying.

August 16, 2001

Students anxious about math do worse on tests, even when they know the material, because their …

August 15, 2001

NASA is building aircraft with inflating wings to save space on probes in our atmosphere... and …

August 14, 2001

California Extremely Large Telescope: Plans to build it and where

August 13, 2001

A robot modelled after a scorpion that can be used to spy under harsh, desert-like conditions.

August 10, 2001

Teasing out how the nose works and how the sense of smell is important in everyday life.

August 9, 2001

Turning the ocean's waves into electrical power with special buoys.

August 8, 2001

Psychologists will give an artificially intelligent machine named GAC (developed by the Mindpixel …

August 6, 2001

Seeing an effect, people will think they've also seen the cause.

August 3, 2001

Bacteria in your gut change how your genes express themselves, making it easier for other friendly …

August 2, 2001

Special compounds might one day be used to trap dangerous, radioactive contamination in soil.