Vitamin-Packed With Promises
By CHRISTIE ASCHWANDEN How supplements became ubiquitous in our food and in our stores, even though evidence they […]
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Good Thing Bumblebees Don’t Have Car Keys
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Just as they can remember different flowers, bumblebees can forget them, too, researchers have […]
Britain Had Wheat Before Farming, Study Says
By SINDYA N. BHANOO DNA from an underwater site suggests wheat made its way from the Neolithic farmers […]
A Quest to Solve Ceres’ Mysteries
By KENNETH CHANG NASA’s Dawn mission will begin orbiting Ceres, the largest known asteroid, on Friday. Scientists want […]
A Few Reasons to Love Bleeding
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY In at least a few specific ailments, periodic blood donations have advantages for the […]
Gulf of Mexico Turns Deadly for Dolphins
By RACHEL NUWER A scientific explanation has proved elusive, but evidence is building that the BP Deepwater Horizon […]
NASA Spacecraft Making First Visit to Dwarf Planet Ceres
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A NASA spacecraft is about to reach the end of a nearly eight-year journey […]
Lenticular Cloud, Moon, Mars, Venus
It is not every day that such an interesting cloud photobombs your image. The original plan was to […]
Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by ...
By HENRY FOUNTAIN Researchers said Monday that a recent extreme drought in Syria was most likely linked to […]
Attention, All Scientists: Do Improv, With Alan Alda’s Help
By KENNETH CHANG The former star of the television show “M*A*S*H” helps teach a way to explain complicated […]