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Injectable Mesh Electronics Could Someday Interface with Your Brain
The mesh unrolls like a loosed parachute—not into thin air but rather into the brain of an unconscious mouse. Delivered from the tip of a syringe, the device is woven from supple,...
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Putting a Price on Nature
I’ve done the math, and for $1.20, you can preserve a 19-inch by 19-inch square of rainforest habitat—home, on average, to 0.000006 long-tailed macaques and 0.0000001 pangolins. All you have to do is...
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Left to Their Own Devices, Computers Create Trippy, Surrealist Art
Wheeled polychromatic chickens hover beside a dog-headed purple serpent presiding over a jumble of picturesque foreign rooftops. No, you’re not looking at a Dali painting or a rendering of a...
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Wild Bees Are Vital to Agriculture, But Only 2% Do Most of the Work
If wild bees cared about economics and stayed up to date with peer-reviewed ecology research, they might borrow a slogan from the Occupy movement. “We are the 98%!”, millions of wild bees might shout,...
View Article1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind
Pop music in the 1980s was full of weirdness, but no amount of Madonna or “The Safety Dance” will prepare you for what scientists recently found in a Michael McDonald song—fractals. Physicist Holger...
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When It Gets Hot Out There, These Lizards Turn Into Ladies
A sex-reversed dragon sounds like something you’ll find in a racier corner of the science fiction section—but in fact you might stumble across one in central Australia, according to a recent study...
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Secrets of Bear Hibernation Could Help Us Get to Mars
It might seem that hibernating bears only serve as inspiration to sluggards and couch potatoes. But it turns out that astronauts, and many others, might benefit from emulating some of the ways of the...
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1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD
Tetris has been gobbling up free time and attention spans of devotees since long before Angry Birds and Candy Crush, but this colorful computer puzzle may be more than a diversion. A recent study in...
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Long-Lasting “Spaceballs” Solve Century-Old Astronomy Puzzle
Nearly 100 years ago, a graduate student named Mary Lea Heger observed contaminated starlight. As the light traveled to her telescope, it was interacting with great clouds of—something—in the spaces...
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City Law Warns About Radiation That Probably Won’t Harm You
The city that begat the Free Speech Movement is getting sued for violating free speech. In May, Berkeley, California, passed an ordinance requiring purveyors of cell phones to post a notice warning...
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Highly-Effective Ebola Vaccine Could Stymie Future Outbreaks
Over 27,000 cases and 11561 deaths. The statistics that tell the story of the most recent Ebola outbreak are stark, but a new number published today in the medical journal The Lancet may be even more...
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Friction Fighters
Is friction real? Once, with the quiet certainty of someone who just stayed up all night in the company of equations describing concrete, my college roommate told me that friction was made up. Now, I’m...
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The Undamming of America
Gordon Grant didn’t really get excited about the dam he blew up until the night a few weeks later when the rain came. It was October of 2007, and the concrete carnage of the former Marmot Dam had been...
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Graphene, Meet Mainstream
If the revolution comes, it will have started with Scotch tape, pencil lead, and cosmetic powder. Physicists first produced graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms— from humble graphite in...
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