After Brood X, the Scientists Are Buzzing
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This summer's emergence of trillions of periodical cicadas may be over, but the science arising from Brood X's dessicated carcasses has just begun.
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Australian scientists are using the collective intelligence found in insect swarms to develop the next generation of hi-tech military hardware.
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Amateurism is getting a good name, courtesy of three dinosaur enthusiasts who have uncovered a rich clutch of fossilized eggs.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Carnegie-Mellon professor is working to create swarms of tiny robots that can assume any shape.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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US biologists hope to make super-strong materials after identifying the genes behind the black widow spider's silk.
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A biologist investigates claims that animals flourished in the radiated 40-mile-diameter âexclusion zone.â
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Researchers find way to make tiny structures emit different wavelengths of light.
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An international scientific consortium decodes the chicken genome.
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Advanced X-ray technology has helped scientists spot a new target that drug designers might use to attack the dreaded bird flu virus.
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Eye blinkingly fast Researchers on the island of Samoa have witnessed evolution in action, as the population of male "Blue Moon" butterflies has returned from the brink of extinction. The researchers, from Berkeley University, put the resurgence of the species down to an evolutionary arms race, in which the butterflies' latest weapon is a gene that fights off a parasite.â¦
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Do germs communicate? Many scientists think so and are betting the chatter may hold the key to developing the next generation of drugs to fight killer superbugs.
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Neuroscientists use coral and jellyfish DNA to create colorful arrays of neuronal connections in mouse brains.
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Researchers find a receptor they believe keeps eggs in arrested development until ready for fertilisation.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.