Science

Dissolving implantable device relieves pain without drugs

How pandas survive solely on bamboo: Evolutionary history

Ice Age wolf DNA reveals dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations

Is there a right-handed version of our left-handed universe?

By Odin's Beard! Tubulins named after the Norse god may be the missing link between single-celled organisms and human cells

The heat is on: Traces of fire uncovered dating back at least 800,000 years

The octopus' brain and the human brain share the same 'jumping genes'

What did Megalodon eat? Anything it wanted -- including other predators.

Scientists identify a possible source for Charon's red cap

How elliptical craters could shed light on age of Saturn's moons

Engineers create single-step, all-in-one 3D printing method to make robotic materials

Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago, study finds

The benefits of exercise in a pill? Science is closer to that goal

Previously hidden protoclusters could reveal new details of galaxy evolution

What quantum information and snowflakes have in common, and what we can do about it

Near-sun comet roasted to death

Genetic discovery could spell mosquitoes' death knell

A large predator from the Pyrenees

No signs (yet) of life on Venus

Cats' strange reactions to catnip make it a better insect repellent

Simulations reveal hydrodynamics of planetary engulfment by expanding star

Rubbery camouflage skin exhibits smart and stretchy behaviors

Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid

Yellowstone's history of hydrothermal explosions over the past 14,000 years

High optimism linked with longer life and living past 90 in women across racial, ethnic groups

Most 'silent' genetic mutations are harmful, not neutral -- a finding with broad implications

Scientists craft living human skin for robots

'Fantastic giant tortoise,' believed extinct, confirmed alive in the Galápagos

Antarctic glaciers losing ice at fastest rate for 5,500 years

Europe's largest land predator unearthed on the Isle of Wight

Particle accelerator region revealed inside a solar flare

New evidence about when, where, and how chickens were domesticated

New research shows long-term personality traits influence problem-solving in zebra finches

NASA's Davinci mission to take the plunge through massive atmosphere of Venus

How plesiosaurs swam underwater

How sleep builds relational memory

Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction

Cuttlefish camouflage may be more complex than previously thought

Where rivers jump course

Seeing how odor is processed in the brain

Smart, dissolving pacemaker communicates with body-area sensor and control network

Scientists shine new light on role of Earth's orbit in the fate of ancient ice sheets