The Internet goes ape over a monkey selfie and the copyright battle it sparked
It's a whole new twist on The Shot Heard 'Round The World: A photo of a female crested black macaque monkey grinning for the camera in classic selfie pose. The photo is now an international sensation...
View ArticleEurope's space probe is poised for a trip around the solar system — with a comet
Europeans made history with the Rosetta Probe Wednesday. After a 10-year chase, the European Space Agency announced that its spacecraft had maneuvered alongside a speeding comet to begin mapping its...
View ArticleHow an American scientist helps grandmothers in Argentina find their ‘stolen’...
In 1984, geneticist Dr. Mary-Claire King began working with the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization that searches for the hundreds of babies stolen by Argentina’s military dictatorship...
View ArticleThe secret weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's might just be an iPod
A growing body of evidence indicates that giving Alzheimer’s patients an iPod filled with their favorite music can benefit them in profound ways.A new documentary, called Alive Inside, highlights this...
View ArticleUltrarunning tests the outer boundaries of human endurance, but doctors say...
About 97 runners recently braved the Badwater Ultramarathon in California. "Ultra" is the right word: It's five times longer than a marathon, forces runners to climb 17,000 feet and takes place over...
View ArticleThe tiny nautilus may help illuminate the history of brain development
Even in a family tree of full of eccentrics, the tiny nautilus is still an oddball. Unlike most other soft-bodied cephalopods — cuttlefish, squid and octopus — the nautilus has no camouflage, no ink...
View ArticleIf you use WeChat, China wants to know your real name
China’s Internet authority has issued a new rule requiring all messaging app companies to set up real-name registration for users, an effort mainly aimed at WeChat, China’s most popular messaging...
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Why some Kenyan villagers take AK-47s to fetch water
The Turkana are a nomadic tribe, and their only possessions are their livestock. The village of Loblono is little more than a few temporary stick huts scattered across the sand. It looks like a strong...
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Women unite in the slums of Nairobi to provide clean water
Every spare nook in Caren Gekonge’s home in Kibera is filled with bright yellow jerry cans and large black drums of water. She hauls all this water home in a wheelbarrow, making sure to stock extra....
View ArticleConsumers are demanding antibiotic-free meat, and Big Food is starting to listen
Petaluma Poultry in the hills north of San Francisco is the kind of place most people might like to imagine their chicken dinner comes from. Free-range chickens meander in a shaded outdoor area,...
View ArticleFacebook offers the best advertising for migrant-smuggling coyotes
Ten years ago, if you lived in Central America and were looking for a guide to help you sneak across the US-Mexico border, you'd ask your neighbors and call your relatives in the US to see if they knew...
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Conservationists are working to create more national parks at sea
In 2006, filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of the explorer Jacques Cousteau, screened his documentary, Voyage to Kure, about the waters northwest of Hawaii. The theater was the White House and his...
View ArticleFor a team of researchers stranded on an island with a storm coming, the...
Imagine being on a tiny Pacific island with three tropical storms headed your way. That was the situation for 11 researchers working at the Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument last week.The group...
View ArticleIn Madagascar, invasive toads are threatening rare wildlife and frightening...
Something isn’t quite right along a bumpy dirt road on the east coast of Madagascar.Residents of the village of Farafaty cook skewers of meat over an open fire while a soundtrack of Malagasy music...
View ArticleHumanity is the great species killer
If you take the long view, extinction is just part of nature. But extinction at its current rate is definitely not."Geologists in the distant future will be able to see that something very, very...
View ArticleAs the Ebola crisis rages, West African villagers are warned away from fruit...
Scientists are warning West African communities where the Ebola virus has been aggressive to stay away from fruit bats, and to be wary of hunting bush meat, in general, too. West African communities...
View ArticleAn Iranian woman makes history in winning a math prize
Growing up in Iran, the newest winner of math's most prestigious award wasn't even especially fond of the subject. She wanted to be a writer.But then, says Maryam Mirzakhani in a video from the...
View ArticleResearchers are unlocking 'mating pandemonium' and other secrets of forest...
New audio and video recordings from Central Africa have revealed a loud and mysterious activity among forest elephants: "mating pandemonium."“After a mating event occurs — just when the male dismounts...
View ArticleShark photographer Michael Muller goes uncaged to capture the best photos
Michael Muller loves sharks, and he wants you to share his infatuation.The American photographer travels the world capturing underwater images of sharks. Last week, a photo Muller snapped was featured...
View ArticleA new computer algorithm is helping scientists record audio using a potted plant
Researchers at MIT have come up with a way to reproduce audio signals by examining video footage of the tiny vibrations made by ordinary objects.“When sound hits an object, it causes the object to...
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