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Bacteria on monkey bars

Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria that can spread through the body at a high rate. The method by which it does so has recently been disco...
If you can’t find you limbs

We all know our five senses. But, we have many more senses than just those five. We have the sense of proprioception, for example, that hel...
How fish learned how to walk

385 million years ago, the first amphibians evolved from fish and set foot on land. But what drove them onto land? And how did they actuall...
Seeing through chips

Rayko Ivanov Stantchev and his team have found a way to look inside computer chips. With terahertz radiation, they are able to look through...
Graphene acts like a poster

Graphene, the weird material that already has all kinds of odd and useful properties, has a new one; it can rip itself into ribbons. James ...
Salty oxygen surprises scientists

Studying how the atmosphere was millions of years ago can tell us a lot about early life on earth. But that air is long gone. Nigel Blamey ...
Sneak peek into Jupiter

‘We use Earth-bound radio observations to peer beneath Jupiter’s surface.’ says Imke de Pater in this week’s issue of Science. With radio w...
Taking a closer look at coral

When you want to take a look at something small, you use a microscope. But what if you want to observe something under water? You can’t us...
DIY fuel for Martian astronauts

Plans for a manned mission to Mars are on the news just about every other day. But for now, such a manned mission seems impossible. Howeve...
Chinchilla guts mess up biology

Scientists have long thought that cells can’t live without their powerhouses, but Anna Karnkowska and her team have disproven this. They’ve...