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Doping soldiers so they fight better – is it ethical?
A waxwork of Captain America on display at Madame Tussauds in Bangkok, Thailand. Nuamfolio/Shutterstock.comThe military is constantly using technology to build better ships, warplanes, guns and armor....
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Rapid water quality tests better protect beachgoers
Fast tests can help keep people out of the water when it's unsafe, and let them back in sooner once the coast is clear.Paul Fisher, CC BY-NDPlanning a trip to the beach? Along with looking forward to...
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6 ways to protect your mental health from social media's dangers
Is social media helping you feel good?pathdoc/Shutterstock.comMore than one-third of American adults view social media as harmful to their mental health, according to a new survey from the American...
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This year the flu came in two waves – here’s why
They're not perfect, but flu shots are still good to get.AP Photo/David GoldmanThe just-ended 2018-2019 flu season was relatively mild compared to the last season, during which nearly 80,000 people in...
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Gene-edited babies don't grow in test tubes – mothers' roles shouldn't be erased
He Jiankui claims he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. AP Photo/Mark SchiefelbeinA baby with incandescent green eyes, a baby stamped with...
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Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Livestock, like these goats in the Rift Valley of Tanzania, are critical to household economies in East Africa.Katherine Grillo, CC BY-NDVisitors to East Africa are often amazed by massive herds of...
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Fighting malaria with fungi: biologists engineer a fungus to be deadlier to...
Spraying insecticide to kill mosquitoes: Mosquitoes are vectors of many devastating diseases such as malaria.Sukjanya/Shutterstock.comBed nets. Insecticides. Sterile and genetically modified insects....
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Naked mole rat genes could hold the secret to pain relief without opioids
Naked mole-rats feel no pain when exposed to acid or capsaicin. Roland Gockel, MDC, CC BY-SAAnyone with an annoying roommate story knows that a difficult living situation can change you in many ways....
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Pilots sleeping in the cockpit could improve airline safety
Airline pilots are often exhausted.christinarosepix/Shutterstock.comAirline pilots are often exhausted. An extreme example happened in 2008, when a pilot and a co-pilot both fell asleep at the...
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Big tech surveillance could damage democracy
Companies use data to make a portrait of their users.ImageFlow/shutterstock.comData is often called the oil of the 21st century. The more tech companies know about their users, the more effectively...
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Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization's decline
Cambodia’s famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world’s largest religious monuments, visited by over 2 million tourists each year.It was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II, one...
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Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US
Many of Baltimore's city services are crippled by a cyberattack.The Conversation from City of Baltimore and Love Silhouette/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-SAThe people of Baltimore are beginning their fifth...
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Antibiotic resistance is not new – it existed long before people used drugs...
Antibiotic resistance can spread between microbes within hours.Lightspring/Shutterstock.comImagine a world where your odds of surviving minor surgery were one to three. A world in which a visit to the...
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Spider glue's sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
Spider glue is actually a specialized silk protein.Sarah Stellwagen, CC BY-NDWhat do all of the over 45,000 described spider species on Earth have in common? Each makes at least one type of silk. And...
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The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth of the solar system
Geminid meteors shower downward on a December night in a remote part of Virginia. Genevieve de Messieres/Shutterstock.comApril 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L’Aigle in Normandy,...
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Does hitting the snooze button really help you feel better?
How many times do you hit snooze before getting out of bed?DGLimagesTo sleep or to snooze? You probably know the answer, but you don’t prefer it.Most of us probably use the snooze function on our alarm...
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Are brain games mostly BS?
You might just be getting better at the game you're practicing.Malcolm Lightbody/Unsplash, CC BYYou’ve probably seen ads for apps promising to make you smarter in just a few minutes a day. Hundreds of...
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Trophies made from human skulls hint at regional conflicts around the time of...
How did military conflict fit into the end of a mighty civilization?AP Photo/Moises CastilloTwo trophy skulls, recently discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the...
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Driverless cars are going to disrupt the airline industry
Which would you prefer?photo-denver/Shutterstock.comAs driverless cars become more capable and more common, they will change people’s travel habits not only around their own communities but across much...
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Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of...
Robots won't hold the pens just yet, but they can help people do the work.Paul Fleet/Shutterstock.comMuch as robots have transformed entire swaths of the manufacturing economy, artificial intelligence...
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