Cheetahs’ Secret Weapon: A Tight Turning Radius
By KATIE HILER
A study shows that the large feline’s key to hunting success is not its speed but its skill at leaping sideways, changing directions abruptly and slowing down quickly.
Jade offered for trade at a bazaar in Xinjiang Province, China. To geologists, the presence of jade indicates that the rocks containing it are a vestige of an ocean buried underground.
Gems — each forged with its own recipe of elements, temperature and pressure — offer precious clues to some of the most profound questions about the life of our planet.
A study shows that the large feline’s key to hunting success is not its speed but its skill at leaping sideways, changing directions abruptly and slowing down quickly.
Proposed rules that would require appliances, lighting and buildings to use less energy have languished for as long as two years awaiting approval from White House officials.
Gill nets snare and drown at least 400,000 seabirds every year, and the actual figure could be considerably higher, scientists said.
Adding the animals to the list of endangered species would pose a new obstacle to their use in invasive biomedical research.
A female cougar was released by wildlife officials after being trapped near a populated area in Washington State in 2012.
Cougars, solitary and elusive, had vanished from much of the country, but in recent decades the species has been making a comeback, fueling both fascination and fear.
The “mouse hospital” at Beth Israel Deaconess and similar ones elsewhere are at the forefront of a new approach to studying human cancers, namely prostate cancer in men.
The rise in the planet’s surface temperature has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that, a circumstance that highlights how much is still unknown about the climate system.
A new analysis of what a team of astronomers said was evidence of an Earth-mass planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B raises existential questions.
A student-professor team at Case Western Reserve University has invented a hand-held malaria detector that magnetizes the innards of malaria parasites.
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CERN has the Large Hadron Collider, and now Japan may become a hub for particle physics. - Jennifer A. Kingson
Australia was once home to lush tropical forests, paleontologists say, after studying ancient kangaroo teeth. - Jennifer A. Kingson
More Lego people have snarling, mean faces, a NZ scientists finds. Will children be traumatized? - Jennifer A. Kingson
No doubt Stephen Hawking will be flattered to be played by the star of "Les Miz." - Jennifer A. Kingson
Inside an operating room for tiny patients; one big cat makes a comeback; an actor blames oral sex for his throat cancer.
Mouse Hospitals, Cougars on the Prowl, Michael Douglas and HPV 
Recent developments in health and science news. This week: discoveries from an Italian library, British waters, and a slab of rock in China.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission advises that devices like dishwashers, washing machines and even cellphones be shut down overnight to prevent overheating and fires.
A new study found that male superb lyrebirds sing and dance along to attract mates.
A tumor found in the rib of a 120,000-year-old Neanderthal specimen is the earliest of its kind in the human fossil record, a new study reports.
The average personal income in the richest state (Connecticut) was 1.8 times that in the poorest state (Mississippi) last year.
Periodical cicadas live underground for 17 or 13 years before emerging to sing, mate and die. This year’s cicadas are Brood II, one of 15 surviving regional broods.
A series of articles and videos about leaders in science including Hopi E. Hoekstra, Linda Fried, Elizabeth Spelke, Richard Dawkins, Nora Volkow, Eric Lander, Michael Gazzaniga and Steven Pinker.
