What a dream looks like
The ability to take a picture of a dream sounds like something that’s possible only in a dream, but a team…
Year: 2011
The secret songs of giant beavers
Giant beavers, which vanished from North America about 10,000 years ago, had a secret in their heads: a long compartment…
Double sunsets on a distant world
If you were stranded on a recently discovered planet called Kepler-16b and looked up during the day, you’d see an…
Robots invent their own language
Australian scientists have invented a new breed of robots called Lingodroids, programmed to make, use, and share language. The bots can…
Cars of the Future
We won't be driving the cars of the future; more likely, they'll be driving us. They'll park themselves, run on…
Prize awarded for largest mathematical proof
The largest proof in mathematics is colossal in every dimension – from the 100-plus people needed to crack it to…
In praise of grazing
In 1996, when Ralph and Kimberlie Cole bought 100 acres on the scenic Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee, neither of…
Dolphin dimples detect electricity
German scientists have found that Guiana dolphins can detect tiny electric fields using special organs in their snouts ---…
Green Hornets
Oriental wasps turn ultraviolet light into energy, say researchers from Tel Aviv University. Listen to this show from the Loh…
Lotion takes a bite out of snake venom
For a person who has the rotten luck to get bitten by a poisonous snake, every second counts. That’s because…